Word: outspoken
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...father and daughter sat down and talked about their respective lives. The senior Hamill explained that Dorothy's outspoken comments had destroyed any chance she had for either the national or world championship titles. The Olympics were now out of the question, unless...
...never run for public office, and even denies that he has firmly set his sights on a political career. Nonetheless, Sanjay Gandhi, 29, the younger son of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi* and the grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, has been hitting the hustings lately as an articulate and outspoken advocate of his mother's policies. Sanjay's political enemies-and even some of his friends-have begun to refer to him as "the crown prince." Veteran Indian politicians are treating him with the deference due a young man who happens to be the likely heir to a political dynasty...
...Saturday was, as Gervasi indicated, condescending to a party that will have to make its decisions based on first-hand knowledge of a wartime situation. All Americans can do, Gervasi said after the resident of Roxbury had dismissed the rhetoric, is give their support to the MPLA in an outspoken and unified way. That may not be very ideological, but it is the imperative...
...Standing on a flower-bedecked podium, Yelena Bonner Sakharov smilingly received the gold Nobel medal and the $143,000 check that goes with it. Then she read the five-minute acceptance speech that her husband had managed to send out of the Soviet Union. Characteristically, Russia's most outspoken champion of civil liberties took the occasion to plead for a worldwide amnesty for political prisoners. He also expressed his "deep personal longing" for "genuine disarmament." After the ceremony, Yelena Sakharov watched from her hotel balcony as 2,000 people marched from the university to the Parliament house shouting "Long...
...developing states have approved resolutions that demand a "new international economic order." The meaning: massive and painful sacrifices by the rich on behalf of the poor. So one-sided have the Assembly's actions become that the U.S. has denounced them as "a tyranny of the majority"; outspoken U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Daniel P. Moynihan has characterized them as "the politics of resentment and the economics of envy...