Word: forthright
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...Stones." Oakland County's limestone courthouse is a gingerbready, dishwater-grey building, set at the principal business intersection, Saginaw and Huron streets. Before it local Republicans had nailed together an uncovered yellow pineboard platform. There Willkie talked, his booming baritone sunk by hoarseness to a deep bass: earnest, forthright, without fireworks...
...read the whole thing through at a stretch, you get the impression toward the end of "having heard this before." Nevertheless, individually and collectively, the articles are forthright, readable, and well-informed. Moreover they are devoid of the bull-headedness which unsympathetic persons have been went to associate with the words "Student Union...
...Magazine (now defunct) published an article by a Texas-born newspaperman and novelist, Eugene P. Lyle Jr., predicting World War II. Laid in the future like one of H. G. Wells's fantasies, it was called The War of 1938. Lyle's story was a forthright piece of propaganda. His object in The War of 1038 was to discourage talk of a negotiated peace, persuade the Allies to crush Germany altogether...
...early assignment to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the friendly interest of Arkansas's late Joe Robinson, a trip to Europe and one look at Hitler rounded Claude Pepper into what he was last week. He was still conservative in his dress, sometimes forthright, sometimes grandiloquent, in his speech. He was not well liked in the Senate, had no great influence there. Yet he had a certain importance. His importance was due less to him than to his colleagues: of the 96, Claude Pepper was the only one whom Franklin Roosevelt considered anywhere near fit to expound the Administration...
...atmosphere saturated with alien intellectual influences, he remained steadfastly and intelligently native. While most U. S. writers sighed for Europe, he looked resolutely and fondly homeward. He was a cultural nationalist before his contemporaries had thought up the term. And like most pioneers, he was a little too forthright, a little too blunt, a little funny...