Word: outspoken
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...that urged Poles "to ruin the attempt to make this holiday a show of obedience." Only about 200 youths stood ready to battle the police, who chased them down cobblestoned streets with jets of water. When the protesters tried to regroup outside the church of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, an outspoken supporter of the banned trade union, the riot squads finally dispersed the crowd with water cannons...
...most intense, enduring, unresolved and potentially explosive relationship in her life. She and Warren, who is three years younger, are intimate but often uneasy with each other. Says Warren: "Families are, after all, individual people, and manners were not invented for nothing." They have disagreed over Shirley's outspoken depiction in her books of family matters-including their father's drinking and his views on race-that Warren feels may be misrepresented and better left unsaid. According to a friend, Shirley also outraged Warren a few years ago by making a joke about his love life...
Well, yes, I agree with all this. Markey screwed up, and he screwed up in the wrong way. During his short campaign he talked a lot about how proud he was of the enemies he's made as an outspoken freeze-groupie liberal. But last week he probably earned more political enemies among his allies than he'll be able to count after another 10 years of pushing the freeze. And that's if he's reelected. "Put it this way," said political consultant Michael Goldman, who is working for one of the candidates running for Markey's congressional seat...
...report (Dean Fox's annual report) also carries a note of naivete, for it fails to address the problem that the College and minority students have consistently interpreted events differently, and will probably continue to do so." It is disturbing that The Crimson seems to believe that outspoken leaders of certain minority groups speak for all minorities (most of whom have never had contact with these minority groups). This statement is also indicative of the gross characterizations of minorities which is responsible for much confusion. Certainly there are commonalities that bind all minorities together, but we must realize that differences...
Inez's family, especially her outspoken sister Janet, makes a miniature of a comfortable colonial society, charming and eccentric at home, but living by hard deals everywhere else. The crisis in Democracy comes when Inez's father Paul, a voluble lunatic, shoots Janet to death, and Inez, mystified but somehow released, leaves her old life to go with Lovett to Hong Kong just before the fall of Saigon...