Word: outspoken
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...outspoken Frank has been less hesitant. Although he refused to criticize Medeiros, he labeled the words of another cleric--Msgr. Leo J. Battista--as "deliberate and systematic misstatements...
Jews are afraid that Carter is trying too hard to work out an accommodation with the Arabs at the expense of Israel. To counter these fears, both Carter and Mondale pledged outspoken and undeviating support of Israel during their acceptance speeches, and the band played Hava Nagila, the traditional Jewish song of rejoicing. Yet, in these complicated times, there is the hazard that such pro-Israel demonstrations will further anger Arab nations that the U.S. needs as friends?and thus give Carter more troubles...
Slightly surprised by their success, exultant women's leaders held a victory press conference at the New York Statler Hotel. Midge Costanza, who in 1978 was forced out of office as Jimmy Carter's liaison to women's groups and minorities because she was too outspoken, deftly turned a Carter line (borrowed from John F. Kennedy) into a barb...
Compared with his ascetic friend Robert Mugabe, who is a trained and erudite philosopher, the stocky Tekere has always cut the figure of a rough-and-ready, sometimes recklessly outspoken black nationalist with little patience for ideology or gradualism. Last month Tekere scathingly dismissed two top Anglican churchmen-one of whom had spoken against the shooting down of an Air Rhodesia airliner by guerrillas last year-as meddlers who "have no place with us." Even in public, he never hesitated to call his old tribal and personal antagonist Joshua Nkomo "useless and redundant...
Poland's Communist rulers wisely came to terms some time ago with the nation's fiercely independent and outspoken Catholic Church. They have also learned to live with an agricultural system that, unlike the Soviet model, leaves 75% of the country's farms in private hands. Last week, under pressure from a wave of peaceful but illegal strikes in factories across the country, Party Leader Edward Gierek seemed to be heading toward another ideological compromise: de facto recognition of an amorphous independent trade-union movement...