Word: frankest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think I have read some newspaper reports that said Mr. Rabin accused Mr. Begin of being set up by me. Mr. Begin and I instantly liked each other and trusted each other, and we had the frankest possible discussions. We did not mention the subject of legalizing existing settlements,, I didn't think about it. I re-emphasized-to Mr. Begin our national position is and has been that the settlements in the occupied territories were illegal. I also let him know that I thought the establishment of new settlements would be an obstacle to peace. And that...
...Smith letters are the frankest...
...frankest talk of all, however, occurred in Jerusalem in what Kissinger likened to "a family quarrel, loud and noisy." The Secretary outlined the effect of recession on U.S. policy and the Washington leadership crisis that Watergate caused, sometimes in terms so specific that even State Department aides blanched at his candor. Kissinger's remarks were directly aimed at Defense Minister Shimon Peres, Israel's most adamant hawk (see following story) and at Rabin, who was Israel's ambassador in Washington during the Nixon Administration. Without threatening the Israelis, Kissinger stressed the point that the situation in Washington...
Brimmer said he was very pleased with the meeting, nothing that it was the frankest discussion of the numerous sessions which he has ever attended...
Time: 1948. Scene: The quaintly musty Cambridge University rooms where E.M. Forster lived the last 25 years of his life as an honorary fellow. The young visitor was Gore Vidal, who had just piqued the U.S. literary scene with The City and the Pillar, perhaps the frankest homosexual novel in the language to date. Forster allowed as how he too had once written-but suppressed-a homosexual novel that boldly depicted two boys in bed together. "And what did they do?" asked Vidal. "They...talked," replied Forster...