Word: forthright
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Marshal Badoglio. squinting at his staff maps, knew that no matter how it might pain the House of Lords (see col. 3), a forthright poison gas campaign was the quickest and cheapest way of breaking opposition in a country where every herdsman has a rifle. The gassing began...
...Navy ranks the news of their new CINCUS caused one cheer, two shivers. One shiver was for "Jappy" Hepburn's reputation as an iron disciplinarian who has "broken" many a transgressing officer. Another shiver, among Navy hardshells, was for his reputation as a forthright, positive, energetic officer with an amenable spirit toward governmental economy and international amity, a determined regard for 6-inch guns. The cheer was for the new commander's reputation as a thoroughly experienced, altogether first-class Navy...
...already decided to go to war with Tsar Alexander. When Caulaincourt, who had been Russian Ambassador, warned him against the war, assured him that Alexander wanted peace, Napoleon said, "You speak like a Russian." Napoleon insisted with mixed irritation and playfulness that Caulaincourt had become Alexander's man. Forthright, convinced that the plan was suicide, Caulaincourt persisted even after he had been publicly humiliated by Napoleon, snubbed at receptions, rebuffed in his plans for marriage...
...country and the pattern of a month's action can ... compete with a work of the imagination,'' the author writes candidly and with delicacy of his love for his wife, of a minor family squabble, of his affection for the guide, pictures himself as a forthright man with a weakness for bragging, easily irritated and easily calmed...
With great enthusiasm and a high resolve not to dishonor its name, a group of Cossack villagers form the Joseph Stalin Collective, and in an extraordinary variety of ways proceed at once to run it to the ground. The principal figure in this comedy of Communist errors is Davidov, forthright, well-meaning mechanic and onetime gunner who arrives at the isolated village of Gremyachy Log, in the Don basin, with instructions to organize all the farmers except the wealthy ones. He is ably assisted in getting into messes by Nagulnov, secretary of the Communist Party in the village, a long...