Word: forthright
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...meet a vital need. But Major Williams' work itself is bound to disappoint the reader who hopes for a clear-cut expression of what's what in aerial warfare. When Major Williams is discussing such matters as fixed-pitch versus controllable-pitch propellers, his writing is clear and forthright, and it isn't hard to sense the assurance of a man who knows his business and enjoys talking about it. When he talks of engines and wing-structures, his book is absorbing even to the casual reader...
...less loyal than their forebears are today's cliffhanger fans. Most of them are U.S. school children, who demand of their heroes the same forthright Boy Scout qualities that ennobled the silent heroes of the serial's palmy days (1913-16): men who do not drink or smoke, fight only in self-defense or to prevent premeditated crime, always rescue heroines in time's nick...
...before, President Roosevelt had made his usual excuse for lack of forthright action and decision in the world crisis: Solemnly he had announced at a press conference that the U.S. people were not sufficiently "aware" of the country's danger...
Married. Mary Morrison, 20, only child of Britain's cockatoo-haired Home Secretary Herbert Morrison; and Horace Williams, son of forthright, Ascot-tied Labor M.P. and joint Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture Tom Williams; in London...
Whereas people with other types of mental disorder try to sink to an infantile level, or to an animal or vegetative level, the semantic dementia cases try to find utter disintegration, nonlife. But, not recognizing their deep urge to self-destruction, they practically never commit forthright suicide...