Word: outspoken
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...Vietnamese were trying to find some way to leave their nation, President Thieu was insisting that he would stay-much to the dismay of a growing number of his countrymen. Last week the United Buddhist Church called on Thieu to resign. The An Quang Pagoda faction, representing the most outspoken element of the country's Buddhists, has long opposed the President. So have a number of leading Roman Catholics, members of the National Assembly, former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and such advocates of the "third force" as General Duong Van ("Big") Minh...
Razor Blades. Nevertheless, as the mathemagician admits, "not all my readers are fans. I have also managed to provoke some outspoken enemies." In the forefront are the credulous victims of Gardner's recent hoaxes: an elaborate treatise that demonstrated the power of pyramid-shaped structures to preserve life and sharpen razor blades, and "proof by a fictional Dr. Matrix that the millionth digit of π-if it were ever computed, would be the number 5. Even angrier are those occultivated believers in extrasensory perception and faith healing. From the beginning of his career, Gardner has been illuminating the dark...
...kidding? Do you seriously expect your readers to believe that if there were 6 million Arabs sitting in prominent positions in politics, finance and mass communications in this country and only a handful of Jewish rug peddlers, that Presidents from Roosevelt through Ford would have been outspoken Zionists...
...Profitable. That inquisitiveness has earned ABC News Closeup, which does not yet have a regular time slot, 14 journalism awards as well as considerable praise. According to Marvin Barrett, director of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Survey of Broadcast Journalism, Closeup "has been consistently courageous and the most outspoken series of TV reports since See It Now," Edward R. Murrow's pioneering 1950s series...
...dormancy of Jewish student support for Israel is less a function of hostility towards Israel than it is of general students apathy to widely discussed Jewish students may now he less outspoken about their support of Israel, but then his students are outspoken in their support about anything these days. This stands in contrast to the immediate and widespread outpouring of student support for Israel during and after...