Word: forthright
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...attendance is voluntary, and Christianity, in so far as it comes up in the core program, is taught in an ecumenical spirit. "Our task is not to make Presbyterians, or even Christians," says President Kadel. The only guarantee the college makes is that the "Christian faith will have a forthright hearing...
...issue of the war itself, Ford backs the President, with minor reservations. "We say to the President: as long as you have a policy that's firm and forthright and steadfast against Communist aggression, we'll support you. We don't feel that we in the legislative branch in the minority party should determine strategy or tactics. I have many questions as to the need to expand our ground force commitments, especially when we have not used our air and naval superiority as adequately as I think we should. But the over-all position of strength has been good...
...Martin has any criticism of the U.S. response, it is that Washington should have been even more forthright in articulating its aims and supporting General Elias Wessin y Wessin, who helped fight the Castroites to a standstill. "Once we had decided we were in the republic to stop Communism," he writes, "we should have stopped pretending neutrality...
With that forthright declaration of independence, North Korea's Communist Party last week followed the lead of its brother parties in Rumania and Japan, and announced that it was going its own ideological way. In an editorial appearing in Rodong Shinmoon, the country's official Communist newspaper, the party claimed that it-and not Peking or Moscow-was the best judge of how Communist doctrine should be applied to North Korea's problems. "When one loses the faculty of thinking and judging for himself," the editorial said, "he cannot distinguish right from wrong. Such people commit revisionism...
...Journalism. Later he joins a reform party to put Chief Nanga and his grafters out of office. It ends in debacle. Odili is beaten nearly to death by the chiefs forthright constituents, and it is back to the village for him. But all is well. A military coup deposes Nanga's gang, and, with a more or less good conscience, the convalescent Odili is able to pay the "bride price" for the now redundant "parlor wife." He does it from party funds...