Word: outspoken
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When then-Attorney General-designate Elliot L. Richardson '41 persuaded Cox to accept the special prosecutor position in May 1973. Cox was hardly a household name in America, and even at Harvard the soft-spoken labor lawyer was often overshadowed by his more outspoken colleagues...
Leontief is an outspoken critic of the Nixon administration who would like to see more resources allocated towards "improving the well-being of the common man." Specifically, Leontief has advocated tax reform and military spending cutbacks...
...outspoken critic of the antiballistic missile system, Wiesner served as national science adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy '40 and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was instrumental in obtaining Senate passage of the 1963 treaty banning nuclear testing in the atmosphere, oceans and outer space...
...Soviet musician has been an outspoken defender of artistic freedom in the USSR, and he sheltered novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn prior to the author's exile...
...packaged foods, eat organically grown fruits and vegetables, unprocessed cheese and fertilized eggs, and take large doses of vitamins as a chaser. She came under fire from scientific critics who often agreed with her nutritional dicta but felt she oversimplified the etiology and prevention of disease. The earthy, outspoken Davis was unfazed. "I'm a mother figure," she once said, "and many people hate their mothers as much as they love them." She attributed her own fatal illness to "junk food" consumed in earlier years and to extensive X rays she had endured when applying for life insurance...