Word: frankest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acheson coolly responded with the frankest description so far pinned on the U.S.'s wavering, feckless China policy: "Wait until the dust settles." That Mi-cawberism, which Dean Acheson had inherited when he took office, was not enough for Walter Judd. He blamed the U.S. for consistently undermining Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government. Acheson countered that the Chiang government was corrupt, that U.S. military supplies inevitably fell to the Communists without a real fight. Then Judd assailed the State Department's long effort to sell China a coalition government. Said Judd: "The Chinese knew then...
...Order of Bottle. The hearing was remarkable for the frankest and possibly most calculated discussion yet of "the enemy," i.e., Russia...
Even Rene Peroy, probably the frankest coach who ever ran a team for the H.A.A., expects a close match this time. So far Peroy has called the turn on every fencing duel, but he did not predict what would happen when his once beaten swordsmen face the Yale Varsity today at 3 o'clock in New Haven...
Furia (Italian). A refreshingly candid, rather steamy, essentially adolescent film about rural adultery, with good work by Isa Pola as the frankest movie temptress in years. Earnest, but overrated by those who think that the Italians (Open City, Shoe Shine, etc.) can do no wrong...
...Lord had charged that the Government's February auto production estimate of 10,000 was 2,000 more than the truth. Government estimators were under orders to "paint a rosy picture," said Lord. To the Leeds Labor Council Shinwell made an answer which was Labor's frankest public statement of its attitude toward nationalization of industry...