Word: plainer
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...Partners, Louis Auchincloss could not be plainer about how he operates within his chosen limits. His 20th work of fiction, the book is not truly a novel but a set of stories loosely linked by principal characters who happen to be members of the same Wall Street law firm. Each incidental anecdote and character sketch is arranged to show how time and change have affected the values and manners of Auchincloss's narrowing circle...
...were power-intoxicated, self-righteous men, sure that their purposes justified their wrongdoing, insisting that they were not themselves profiting financially, though they were in fact serving their ambitions in the process and showing themselves ready to subvert government and justice when it suited them. Corruption once wore a plainer face...
Nowhere is this plainer than in the Middle East. At least from 1948 until 1967, the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors didn't fall into the classical pattern of conflict between imperialists and their opponents, one powerful country seeking to defend its economic and political resources by exploiting weak countries' workers and their resources and controlling their government. To be sure, the great powers of the world took an interest in the Middle East, and had no objection to trying to turn its people's suffering to their own advantage. England and France, alarmed by Egypt's nationalization...
...roly-poly man of 56 who wore several large oval rings on his fingers, was confident. "The situation was once very critical," he said, "but now it is merely critical. We will recapture what has been lost." There was reason for his growing optimism, and it became plainer over the next several days. River convoys and helicopters brought in enough troops and supplies to more than replace government losses...
...Court's decision was based on First Amendment guarantees against prior restraint of newspapers by the government, and on the public's right to know. Newsweek, surveying the respective positions of the litigants in the case, pronounced: "Few clearer gauges of the sanctity of the First Amendment freedoms, few plainer demonstrations of the openness of American society, could be imagined than the High Court's ruling in favor of the press...