Word: forthright
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...They believe isolationism is dead. At convention's end, sentiment was unanimous that no man could win a Presidential nomination next year without a forthright declaration in favor of a vigorous, realistic, world-minded foreign policy...
...forced to work on Pantelleria's defenses-the President's words were heartening. These groups had been worried over the policy of expedience in North Africa, fearful of the U.S. State Department's occult conservatism. Winston Churchill's chesty truculence.* The President gave the most forthright statement yet of Allied aims toward postwar Italy...
This happy line, from Sergeant Eddie Hartman's 1918 Variety notice of the Elsie Janis A.E.F. camp show, epitomizes the tone of troop entertainment in World War I. What it lacked in polish it more than made up in razzmatazz. Forthright, gangling, cartwheeling Elsie Janis was the greatest favorite of them all. Her persistent yawp "Are we downhearted?" was rarely if ever answered incorrectly. Greatest band-greater even than Sousa's -was Jim Europe's Negro aggregation which, at a bands-of-all-nations celebration in Paris, stopped the show with St. Louis Blues...
...forthright aversion to walking drove Harris into the air. He was 22, spending a happy interlude on a family friend's tobacco farm in Southern Rhodesia, when World War I broke out. Arthur Harris enlisted in the First Rhodesian Regiment of Infantry, served first as a bugler, and (as he later told it) walked across Africa to fight the Germans. Swearing that he would never walk again if any other form of locomotion was available, he went back to England and joined the R.A.F.'s predecessor, the Royal Flying Corps, in 1915. He won the Air Force Cross...
...spend six weeks in the War Department digging up facts for an M-Day book, Adjusting Your Business to War. Shortly thereafter Louis Johnson went into political eclipse for three years (the Presi dent and much of the Administration seemed shocked at such a forthright indication that the U.S. might go to war). But the book added substantially to Leo Cherne's stature - and earnings. Since then his loose-leaf Business and Defense Co ordinator has been snapped up (at $150 to $180 a year) by 7,000 subscribers -including a good many U.S. Government offices in search...