Word: honestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Urban League talked things over with Senatorial Candidate Nguyen Van Viet. "Does the province chief favor one candidate over another?" Young asked. "I think not," answered Viet. Governor Richard Hughes of New Jersey put the question even more bluntly: "Has it been a fair campaign?" Said Viet: "Fair, honest, with no interference...
...welfare investigator in New York City, has not bothered to draw characters or write a plot. His people speak strictly in paragraphs, the blacks detailing their misery, the whites chittering on about the hopelessness of it all and concocting theories about a racial murder. The book is written in honest wrath, but Horwitz is one of those whites who have begun to see themselves as "Char-iey"-and to feel a self-contempt as deep as that of many Negroes. It is a paralyzing inversion...
Down with Diem. During the Diem regime, the Viet Cong slowly gathered momentum. Diem's government tended to be remote from the people, and the rural administrators sent out from Sai gon were seldom honest, nor were they native to their assigned areas. They were considered foreigners by the peasants, and the V.C. were quick to exploit and exacerbate grievances. They harped on local issues, set up cells, village committees and small military units. Political terrorism was started, and the first armed attacks began...
Dialogue between serious men about serious things was for Father Murray the sine qua non of civilized society. The end in view was not agreement but the kind of understanding that honest disagreement presupposes. "Disagreement," he would often say, "is not an easy thing to reach." This, he felt, was society's protection against the confusion spread by the barbarian perpetually at the gates...
...other positions in business can match the chairmanship of Britain's huge National Coal Board, held for six years by blunt, ebullient Baron Robens of Woldingham, 56. "Lord Coal" or "Honest Alf," as he is known to Britons, runs a mammoth operation that has a work force (420,000) twice the size of the British army, ranks No. 3 on FORTUNE'S list of the 200 biggest non-U.S. companies. Because the company has been nationalized since 1947, the N.C.B. chairman is also a political appointee serving at the pleasure of the government. So last week, when...