Word: forthright
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...January, both the agency and the pharmaceutical industry have been rocked by swift and decisive actions designed to give the public greater protection against possibly dangerous drugs. Last week Dr. Goddard was not only on the go with a top-level personnel shake-up but also won a forthright declaration of the President's support...
...AAUP is not noted for its temerity. But if any measure of respectability is to be returned to the faculty at St. John's; if any lasting and meaningful reforms are to be enacted, they will have to be forthright in their analysis and explicit in their proposals. We hope they...
Last week Baltimore's Lawrence Cardinal Shehan invoked another ecclesiastical weapon - the canonical rule of incardination, which binds priests to obey and serve the bishop of the diocese to which they are attached. He used it to curb another kind of forthright priest, Father Gommar De Pauw, founder of the Catholic Traditionalist Movement...
...political. The five Councillors thought that Curry, at 67, was getting too old for the job, that he hadn't taken a dynamic enough position on prospective capital improvements for the City, and that his administration was growing too complacent. In DeGuglielmo they found someone who seemed more active, forthright, and progressive. (Actually, DeGuglielmo found them, for it was he who wanted the manager's job and labored to pick up the necessary majority...
...nominate Adlai Stevenson as TIME'S Man of the Year. Had he achieved his wish and become Secretary of State, his kindly diplomacy and forthright manner could well have found a solution to the Viet Nam problem...