Word: forthright
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...boiling summer sun, stripped to the waist. As ambassador to China, during the heaviest Japanese bombings of Chungking, he imperturbably remained in a patched-up bungalow on the blasted north bank of the Yangtze long after most other envoys had prudently moved. His combination of closemouthed diplomacy and forthright bluntness pleases (and somewhat tickles) Britons, who regard him as one of their ablest and most diligent diplomats...
...liberal in its gifts (average: 400 pesos) or as polished in its situations as U.S. "bank night" shows, Prizes & Surprises has more genuine hilarity because its audience is more forthright. The 500 fans who weekly jampack XEW's bright, modern studio in Mexico City are game for any gag or gimmick. Men have taken off and pressed their pants on stage; women have wrestled with greased pigs...
...Forthright Ed Martin was a good bet to be the Democrats' biggest political headache...
These were all signs that the tough, democratic talk of forthright U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden could be heard across the Caribbean. Elsewhere in Central America there were disturbing proofs that headaches only begin when tyrants are tossed...
...Kremlin air raid shelter. Like anyone else, the Premier thawed to the Clark Kerr personality. In the summer months the sporty, informal Scot startled the Russians by dictating reports in the Embassy backyard, stripped to the waist. But they understood and admired his blend of closemouthed diplomacy and forthright candor. In the recent negotiations over broadening the Rumanian Government, Clark Kerr successfully leaped into one of his rare rages as the only means of bringing to heel the Soviet's strong-arm man, Andrei Vishinsky...