Word: forthright
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...debilitating strokes in 1919, Edith obscured his physical state and quite literally took over the presidency. Foreshadowing Hillary Clinton, who designed and presented a health care program that failed abysmally in part because of the resentment over her assumption of presidential authority, Edith misplayed her hand. Had she been forthright about her husband's condition and allowed his Cabinet to honestly assess his condition and assume some of the presidential authority, the U.S. rejection of the League of Nations treaty might have been avoided, altering the bitter environment that encouraged World...
Shah Mohammed’s quiet, forthright manner helped him sooth the tension and grief unleashed by the terrorism, other prominent Muslims at Harvard said...
...person, Lucinda, who's now 48, doesn't censor herself. She's without guile, and she suffers from that sometimes because people don't know what to make of someone so forthright. They feel as if they want to protect her. But she is a real survivor, and the key to her success as an artist is that she has managed to survive without putting the armor...
...have heard about by then (possibly from her mother or her grandma). If I'd been a less spectacular drinker, I might be able to rewrite my past, but I'm afraid that, like the President, I already blew that gambit. All that's left is to be forthright, more or less, and steel myself against charges of hypocrisy by remembering that my warnings come from love, not a desire to look better than I am. I touched a hot stove when I was little, too, but that doesn't mean I can't tell my daughter...
...There was never more than a ghost of a chance even under the Clinton Administration that the agreement would be ratified by a skeptical Senate, so some feel that Bush's forthright stance has brought a hidden chasm out in the open. French Environment Minister Voynet suggests that the U.S. decision could have a catalyzing effect. "The reaction has been critical throughout the world," says Voynet. "Even countries that have traditionally and openly been close to the U.S. position, like Canada and Australia, haven't followed its lead. Following the failure of the Hague conference we had some doubts about...