Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Toastmaster Joe Davies: "We are doing honor to a man who will be one of the great presidents. . . . [Harry Truman] took every ball that was pitched with a clear eye, a sound head and a straightforward swing...
...Definition. At first the Special Envoy listened much, spoke little. He was direct, straightforward, unfailingly polite. Soon his visitors referred to him as "The Old Professor," a token of esteem in China, where the scholar still ranks above the other three classes (farmers, artisans and merchants) of society...
...friends and influenced people for Britain at a time when his country's stock was painfully low. His hilltop home overlooking Chungking was a haven for Chinese politicians and intellectuals who wanted good books and elegant conversation - in Chinese, which the Ambassador found "very straightforward" to learn "because it has no grammar at all." In Russia he served for three wearing, critical years. He first met Stalin accidentally in a Kremlin air raid shelter. Like anyone else, the Premier thawed to the Clark Kerr personality. In the summer months the sporty, informal Scot startled the Russians by dictating reports...
None Better. At a press conference in the Parliament Building he stood, arms akimbo, as he gave straightforward answers to newsmen: "I have never compared Allied soldiers with each other. But there were none better than the Canadians." He shied from direct comment on joint U.S.-Canadian defense planning: "You as well as ourselves have a lively concern for the territorial integrity of North America. You wouldn't sit back and see Florida taken any more than we would see one of your provinces taken...
...Socialize" all of Britain in an "orderly, straightforward fashion...