Word: franker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizen should ever, if he values his security, "get in the way of influential people." As Bureaucrat Drozdov, the novel's villain, tells Lopatkin: "Your mistake consists in being an individual on his own. The lone wolf is out of date." To his wife Nadia. Drozdov is even franker. "Whenever [Lopatkin] came to see me," he says, "he always held his head like this" -and Drozdov throws his head up in a proud, arrogant gesture...
...French were franker than the Brit ish about Suez. Said Socialist Premier Guy Mollet last week: "We did not tell President Eisenhower about the Franco-British invasion, because if we had, the U.S. would have insisted on our stopping." Mollet did not acknowledge that the main French objective was to unseat Nasser, but the failure to achieve this aim was threatening the life of his government last week...
...suicides, fainting spells, screamings, lovers, comas, seances, and always gentlemen who would take the horses out of her carriage to drag her in triumph to her lodgings. Yet she had the pathos of sincerity that lacked only the understanding of itself. In a sense, her stage appearance was a franker, more straightforward sensationalism than that practiced-among gossip columns, fan magazines and semi-public scandals-by Lola's Hollywood successors...
...Ikemen still lead relatively sheltered and protected lives, their too great reliance on packaged press relations has often failed to make clear exactly what Administration policies mean. Until the Administration speaks with a clearer, franker voice and reporters go after their stories unhampered by second-guessing their publishers or their readers, Washington coverage will not be what it should...
...woman to have an orgasm, and if they did know they thought it was "not nice." Now. says Kinsey. who puts great stock in quantitative analysis: "To have frigidity so reduced in the course of four decades is ... a considerable achievement which may be credited, in part, to the franker attitudes and the freer discussion of sex which we have had in the U.S. during the past 20 years. and to the increasing scientific and clinical understanding...