Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced that he was ending martial law, lifting press censorship, freeing 2,000 political prisoners. He spoke movingly of his own candidacy for President: "You will be asked your opinion of Gamal Abdel Nasser. I want to tell you something. Gamal Abdel Nasser will never deceive or mislead you. I shall work more for the interest of the weak than for the strong...
...refuses even to comment on the bad old days when he was anti-U.S. "Instead of the vague promises of the Communists," explains Joaquin de Lemoine Quiroga, governor of Cochabamba, "Point Four gave help, seeds, fertilizer and tools. The campesino, as an independent landowner, can form his own opinion...
...year to "fill a vacuum" in the South (TIME, June 14, 1954), circulation of the News, then distributed free, leaped from 10,000 to 30,000. It went to top Southern state and city officials, hundreds of school boards, educators, editors-and ordinary parents who found plenty of opinion on the issue in their own newspapers but too little information. Last year, when the service began charging $2 a year, subscriptions began at 3,000 and quickly rose to 12,000 in 48 states and 40 foreign countries...
...held editing jobs on Southern newspapers since 1934. A major reporting problem is to get school officials to speak for attribution; the subject is often just too hot. It is just as hard to get frank views from ordinary citizens in any attempt to sound out public opinion. As desegregation advances, a more novel problem is to get hold of statistics on the school population. In St. Louis and Washington, for example, the number of Negroes in the integrated schools is unobtainable because those cities no longer maintain records with racial identification...
...neutral' with respect to attachment to military alliances," do not mean to claim neutrality between right and wrong. After all, he said, the U.S. constantly asserted its neutrality in the first 150 years of its history. If a neutral nation is attacked, he went on, world public opinion will be more favorably disposed toward it than if it had "announced its military association with another great power...