Word: forthrightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continuing refusal to back U.N. sanctions against South Africa. Seen in this context, Harvard is faced with the choice of a policy of ambivalence on apartheid (opposing it in words while at the same time profiting from it)--which can only cause cynicism among Africans--or a forthright stand which could start to win back the good will of Africa's present and future leaders...
...Klan's courtesy to me was disquieting. The members were chivalrous Southern gentlemen, trying to guide me over the farm's rough terrain. They allowed me to question Grady and other Klan luminaries from nearby states. I generally got forthright, if predictable, answers. But I was always escorted by one of the squadron of clean-shaven guards, who wore military uniforms, with helmets and pistols. It took me several minutes to notice the cross that they would burn later that night; it was so large that I walked past it several times, thinking that it was a tree...
...chief issues are local land use and the candidates' personalities. Robert promises to uphold property rights. Says he: "I don't like to see the government push people around." Besides, he insists that he is better qualified by temperament for the job: "I would be more forthright, controversial and make more waves." Retorts Beverly, who has attended every Ionia County commission meeting for the past four years: "Robert knows the issues, but I'm more informed about the facts and figures. The government should not dictate to people, yet it has an important role to play...
...across from a white couch that rests against a mirror set in an off-white wall. Two 32-in.-high nude statues of her stand on the piano, a nude painting of her hangs on the wall, and there are photographs of her everywhere. Hers is an egocentricity so forthright and complete as to be pure, like that of a six-month-old baby, happy in the discovery of her body...
...chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union from 1946 to 1949, Mather became an early and forthright foe of former Sen. Joseph McCarthy's tactics for exposing alleged communists...