Word: forthright
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...Collingwood was given free access to the country and to its leaders. He talked for more than an hour with Premier Pham Van Dong "who's really running the country," and with the Foreign Minister and a colonel on General Giap's staff. They were, he says, forthright and "very courteous," except for their ritual charges of genocide and their use of propaganda phraseology. On his last night, North Vietnamese officials laid on a banquet of "a number of dishes, two of which were dog, which is a delicacy in North and South Viet Nam," and which...
Warning that the civil rights movement was "very, very close" to a split, he exhorted believers in nonviolence to become "more forthright, more aggressive, more militant." Late last year he added: "We have learned from hard and bitter experience that our Government does not move to correct a problem involving race until it is confronted directly and dramatically." At the end, he was organizing the massive march of the poor on Washington-and if Congress proved recalcitrant, he threatened to obstruct the national political conventions...
Though the Administration could have doused the rumors then and there with a prompt, forthright denial, it grew emotional. White House Press Secretary George Christian, commenting on Presidential Candidate Eugene McCarthy's claim that demands had already been made for the deployment of nukes, declared that such speculation "is false and also unfair to the armed forces. I might add that irresponsible discussion and speculation is a disservice to the country." Rusk later repeated Christian's ill-considered insinuation that such inquiries were unpatriotic...
...until page 45 of this vastly overpraised French novel does one learn that "this is the story of François Besson." This forthright statement is doubly reassuring, because it has been preceded by a weird and frenzied surrealistic opener in which the world crazily assumes the aspect of a petrified urban forest, "a deserted planet, full of signs and booby traps...
...victims of circumstances," cracks Coach Harry Sinden, 35, who in only 32 games (out of 74) has already seen his Bruins involved in three free-for-alls, fined a total of $2,000 and penalized 476 minutes. General Manager Milt Schmidt, 49, is a bit more forthright. "In past years," he says, "we got pushed around. Now we're doing the pushing...