Word: forthrightly
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...class at George Washington University Law School and later became dean of the law school at Howard University. In 1965 President Johnson appointed her Ambassador to Luxembourg. As Jimmy Carter's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and then of Health, Education and Welfare, she was a forthright advocate of government intervention to solve social problems and a firm administrator of her sprawling departments...
...weeks ago with President Reagan's televised assertion that he would like to see the "present structure" of the Sandinista regime removed. As he put it, Reagan wanted to make its leaders "say uncle" and include the contra opposition in their government. The President's remarks represented his most forthright departure to date from his previous insistence that the purpose of U.S. support for the contras was to force Nicaragua to cut off, or at least reduce, support for insurgents in neighboring El Salvador. Reagan's words seemed designed to jar Congress into releasing $14 million in contra aid. Congress...
...creep or a cretin or even an ordinary villain, and his career has followed the dutiful, almost square path one would expect from the characters he projects. When he saw that he was not receiving the kinds of parts he wanted back in the '60s, he did what the forthright, somewhat self-righteous John Book would have done. Rather than fritter away his talent as a bit actor on TV car-chase shows, he all but dropped out for seven years, turning down 90% of the jobs he was offered. With books borrowed from the public library, he learned...
...effect, to moderate his antinuclear position. Hawke had faced a similar threat from antinuclear forces within his own Australian Labor Party but had managed to stave off efforts to prevent U.S. Navy ships from visiting Australian ports. If the U.S. considered Hawke's letter to Lange to be a "forthright expression" of Australia's support for ANZUS, many New Zealanders tended to see it as meddling by a neighboring country they sometimes regard as a bullying older brother...
...network brought to the stand Producer George Crile, a co-defendant who had previously been called as a "hostile witness" by Westmoreland's lawyers. Crile asserted last week that he believed Westmoreland had suppressed intelligence estimates for "political reasons," and that he doubted Westmoreland had been "forthright and straight with us" when interviewed in 1981 for the CBS show. Crile's new testimony was offered as proof of his "state of mind," that is, his belief that the assertions of the documentary were true...