Word: forthright
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...story runs like this: a young American dilettante studying in Switzerland meets and falls immediately in love with a delicate but forthright American girl on an extended holiday in Europe with her family. But the proper American boy, while utterly fascinated by this spontaneous girl, can't come out of his somber cocoon long enough to express his love, more through a fear of social impropriety than of rejection. In one sense, the story is a psychological Romeo and Juliet: his family of assumptions and hers won't let their loves come together. There's also a element of class...
...Cream" [April 8] about the Associated Milk Producers Inc.'s largesse extending over the whole political spectrum, from the campaigns of Richard M. Nixon, Hubert H. Humphrey and Wilbur D. Mills through the printing of the Lyndon Johnson book, I have come to the conclusion that dairymen display forthright honesty in their advertising, as witness the tag line in their television commercial-"Milk Has Something for Everybody...
...press conference, Nixon appeared more relaxed, subdued and conciliatory than he has in a long time. For the most part, he fielded reporters' questions in an assured and forthright manner. He gave not the slightest hint that he either feared that any such fatal revelation might be imminent or that he would ever quit under any circumstances. Even if his continuance in office
...Raymond Vanderhook, Indiana's director of communicable-disease control, issued forthright prescriptions: "Put your head in water at 128°-130° Fahrenheit. This will kill both nits and lice in three minutes. Or use a hair dryer so the heat is strong enough to cause a tingling of the scalp for five minutes." For victims who prefer not to cook their brains there are over-the-counter shampoos that may help and a highly effective prescription emulsion called Kwell. When classes resume, school nurses will examine the heads of all the pupils and allow only those with...
...been a regular, but hardly committed churchgoer. But he said that since his departure from the White House he has had "some occasion" to think about religion and "pray with other committed people." Suspecting that his newfound faith may go down hard with some, Tough Guy Colson had a forthright response for scoffers. Said he: "If anyone wants to be cynical about it, I'll pray...