Word: forthright
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...Reaching agreement with the Soviets will not be short or easy work. But I believe that the Soviet people and their leaders understand the importance of preventing war. And I believe that a firm, forthright American position on arms reduction can bring us closer to a settlement...
John Kennedy was the most forthright in his alternating moods. Many nights he sank into a black fatalism, telling friends it was a certainty that somebody, some time, would launch a nuclear salvo. Within minutes he could change personality and assert that it was his job to modify the lessons of history...
...general impressed me as a forthright and determined man as well as a devoted, and probably pretty able, professional soldier. He could cut an impressive figure as a leader and would not, I thought, be easily turned from his purpose. He asked me, as he put it, to open for him and his colleagues a window on the world. I tried to do so. Could it be that when I threw the window open they looked out-and saw the Falklands...
...society. In fact, the novel's memoir form ensures that he is always on the stand. His accusations are clear, but his evidence is not easy to sort out. Eloquence is frequently drowned out by bombast, and testimony too often has the imprecision of hearsay. For all its forthright bitterness, !Click Song is guarded. It is as if its author had to keep counting to ten so that he would not explode into autobiography. -By R.Z. Sheppard
...policy, Italy has traditionally occupied the second rank in international councils. No longer. While grass-roots pacifism and economic crisis progressively undermine the authority of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Italy is quietly becoming, along with France, one of NATO's most forthright European advocates. Says Pertini: "We maintain that our country has to make its presence felt very strongly in foreign affairs...