Word: forthright
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Written in the form of a letter to an old friend, Letter from Grosvenor Square tells a little of what was not said at that time. It is a simple, forthright account of Winant's work in London, from February 1941 to Pearl Harbor. It is a very good book, honest, unassuming, completely sincere...
...when he stepped outside his own field of fire. Their books have only this in common: each contains a fairly detailed operations report that historians and experts, armchair and professional, will find required reading. Beyond that, Admiral Halsey's Story is a routine, ghost-spun autobiography of a forthright, successful, but essentially uninteresting naval man. War As I Knew It is the sometimes irritating but always readable book of a soldier with curiosity and imagination...
Vatican Praise. His only speech was brief, and competed with the distraction of a visit by Evita Peron. But his forthright explanation of why the U.S. has to put economic aid to devastated Europe ahead of help to Latin America, his emphasis on the individual as opposed to the state, won helpful praise from the Vatican, mollified the Latins, and marked a Rio turning point...
Andreas George Papandreou, instructor in Economics, whose father's resignation from the Tsaldaris cabinet on Saturday overturned the Greek government, in an interview last night called forthright action by the United States--"forgetting formalities"--the key to Greek stability...
...weekend in the country with separate rooms and sailboats on the water--that's for us, huh, honey? That's for us..." And again, instead of allowing the disgusted hero to renounce the game and dissolve quietly into the night, the scriptwriters have added a scene in which the forthright fellow gives the sponsor-boor his comeuppance with a pitcher of water...