Word: forthright
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...intelligent, forthright, sophisticated,and at the same time very down to earth," saidJames Cannon, who served with her in the FordAdministration. "Her success dramatizes what awoman can do if she has ability and courage...
Usually, the Series sparks a rhubarb about the best team in baseball, but this year only the A's have designs on history. The Dodgers have been very forthright about that. "We definitely are not a dominant team," Hershiser says. "The Mets have a better team," says rightfielder Mike Marshall. "There's no doubt in my mind," Lasorda says, "that we beat the best team in the National League...
...changed the way of death for millions of people. Dame Cicely is England's modern-day Florence Nightingale. She has made herself death's interlocutor, bargaining away the pain and isolation in return for peace and acceptance. She has done this as much through the strength of a very forthright -- some say autocratic -- character as through good medicine. "Her spirit is not to be complacent," says Dr. Samuel Klagsbrun, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University who has known Dame Cicely for more than two decades. "Even at this age she stirs the pot and challenges people...
...funniest English academic novel this side of Lucky Jim), Bradbury is also a hard-working critic, a professor of American studies at the University of East Anglia and, at 55, a man disinclined to suppress the cholers of middle age. Unsent Letters consists of 18 imaginary, therefore utterly forthright, responses to his junk mail...
...quitting for the first time suffer the same 75% relapse rate as recovering alcoholics and heroin addicts. Last week the U.S. Surgeon General made official what everyone has recognized for a long time: tobacco, like cocaine or heroin, is addictive. In a no-holds-barred, 618-page report, the forthright C. Everett Koop not only proclaimed that "cigarettes and other forms of tobacco are addicting" but also urged that they should be treated with the same caution as illegal street narcotics...