Word: forthright
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Reich said that, contrary to news reports that Clinton may have misled his local draft board in order to avoid serving in the Vietnam War, the governor was forthright about his intentions to make himself available for military service...
...American traits and flaws. Again and again, she cited examples of American ignorance, hatred, violence and selfishness. Her performance could have been an angry diatribe, or sour polemic, but it was not. Instead it became all the more effective for the endearing, rousing honesty which was embodied in her forthright, quirky style...
...politically relevant, but whether he thinks it would be politically relevant to a significant number of voters. Obviously this isn't an exact science. My own sense is that the current line is somewhere between a dalliance or two many years ago and more energetic misbehavior recently. More forthright testing of that line might produce some pleasant surprises for those journalists who fear that their fellow citizens are too prudish for the country's good. At the least, it would force the citizenry to decide how much they really care about a candidate's sexual history, and might thereby hasten...
Other members would not, as they say, dignify the charges with a response. Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski was particularly forthright. "None of your business," he told reporters. "None of your damn business." One of his staff members explained that Rostenkowski had never bounced a check but viewed any inquiries as "an intrusion into his private affairs." An aide to Democrat Gus Savage of Illinois said, "We're not discussing this at all with the press. If a receptionist had answered the phone you never would have heard from...
...other military hardware, it needed the full cooperation of Pakistan, across whose border the weapons would be shipped. By the mid-1980s, the CIA's Islamabad operation was one of the largest U.S. intelligence stations in the world. "If B.C.C.I. is such an embarrassment to the U.S. that forthright investigations are not being pursued, it has a lot to do with the blind eye the U.S. turned to the heroin trafficking in Pakistan," says a U.S. intelligence officer...