Word: frankest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Journalists have never been notoriously eager to acknowledge their mistakes," said Donovan. "Many have perfected a smoothway of taking a new position without ever noting that they once held quite the opposite view." As for professors, "surely everyone would agree that the people who should be first and frankest in admitting error would be the academic intellectuals, with their totally disinterested dedication to free inquiry. But the recent record is not reassuring. Perhaps it will be this generation of university graduates, your generation, that could teach Americans how to be wrong...
Kissing & Petting. One of the frankest sex programs is that of the Washington, D.C., schools, where the course outline encourages teachers to stimulate classroom discussions on "the natural emotional responses related to kissing and petting." Eighth-Grade Teacher Bernard Dory deftly handles such queries as "Is it O.K. to have intercourse while the girl is having her period?" (His answer: intercourse during menstruation is possible, but many consider it unclean.) The need for plain talk is shown by the appalling misinformation some Washington youngsters bring to the course. At least once a year Teacher Effie Jones is asked...
...having on the one hand been thoroughly supported by the CRIMSON editorial of March 9 in our protest against the war that our Christian government is waging against the Pagan Vietnamese people, but having on the other hand been brutally assaulted on the grounds of our contention in our "frankest moments, that Chinese imperialism is better for the East than American imperialism," are forced to call on you to end this minute your treacherous, oriental, imperialist policies. Your scheming, unprovoked stand "behind this whole movement to sweep the West off the peninsula," the peaceloving West which has never so much...
...alternatively argue that the Chinese have nothing to do with the specific injustices at issue in Vietnam (i.e. it is simply a peasant revolt in which the U.S. has no business meddling); or that the liberal warmongers malign the peaceloving Chinese with their charges of aggression; or, in their frankest moments, that Chinese imperialism is better for the East than American imperialism. This underlying bias is in no way preferable to the liberal bias. It is one of the minor tragedies of undergraduate politics that M-2-M has become the most vocal center of protest against the American position...
Perhaps the frankest of judges is General Sessions Judge Brown Taylor of Nashville, Tenn. He once dismissed a drunken-driving charge against a banker because "this man loaned me money when I needed it, and I'm going to help him now." After a witness in an assault case testified that the defendant struck him with a whip, Taylor offered some judicial advice: "Don't ever let anyone whip you. Take a gun and kill...