Word: forthright
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...then Reagan's campaign manager, claimed he did not remember any such papers, Baker maintained he had received the documents from Casey. Investigators found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing, but Baker had been put in the position of having to defend his integrity. For a member of a proud, forthright clan, this was excruciating ignominy...
Americans liked to defend their forthright manners in those heady early years by insisting that they represented the new democracy's rejection of class-ridden Europe. Thomas Jefferson made a point of receiving foreign diplomats and all other White House visitors without any distinctions of rank, which led to a scramble for seats that he called the "rule of pell-mell." "When brought together in society," Jefferson wrote in a memo to his Cabinet, "all are perfectly equal, whether foreign or domestic, titled or untitled, in or out of office." ("Nowadays," Judith Martin observed in the course of giving...
...dead-end approach implict in a continuation of the Reagan Revolution, it stands on its own as compassionate and responsible economic policy. Mondale would restore the cuts in social spending. He would pay for these social obligations to the poor, the sick, and the elderly through, mainly, a forthright pruning of the Pentagon budget and a plan for modest tax increases. Mondale's deficits reduction plans are not without their problems, but at least he has plans, which is more than can be said of Reagan...
Similarly, Mondale apparently has gained little or nothing out of all the TV time and newspaper space he has won by contrasting his own forthright pledge to raise taxes with what he contends is a "secret" Reagan plan to do the same thing. Only 27% of the people polled by Yankelovich approve of tax increases as a way to reduce the budget deficit. Despite-or perhaps because of-what is frequently seen as Reagan's waffling on the subject, respondents rate the President as the candidate who would do the better job on taxes by a significant...
Everyone stood up for Retton, a resilient child and a killer competitor of 16, whose 92 Ibs. of forthright chunkiness rises scarcely 4 ft. 9 in. from the preposterous base of a pair of size3 feet. Among her best reflexes is a snappy smile, but the hunter's look with which she fixed Rumanian Ecaterina Szabo, 17, was memorable too as fortune started Szabo off on her best apparatus and Retton on her worst. They proceeded inversely until Szabo dismounted the parallel bars with relief and Retton came to the vaulting horse, her pet pony. A loud bear, Bela Karolyi...