Word: outspoken
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...start of rioting, the government arrested more than 200 Africans on various charges. It also picked up Garfield Todd, the widely respected former Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, and his daughter Judith, 29, and imprisoned them under the preventive-detention law. Their only offense appeared to have been their outspoken opposition to the proposed settlement...
...addition to their holographic evidence, McGraw-Hill and LIFE also base their case for authenticity on the internal character of their manuscript, which is offhand, conversational, outspoken, frequently salty. It deals intricately and at considerable length with airplane design and performance. There are glints of characteristic Hughes wit. He scoffed at Richard Nixon's Checkers speech, for example: "I always thought he must have had an onion hidden in his handkerchief." Such details would have been extremely difficult for Irving to fake. Indeed, the Hughes camp seemed ready to base its case less on the authenticity of the book than...
...majority statement of the board of inquiry held that Franklin, an outspoken Maoist, had "exceeded the permissible bounds" of free speech, and that he could not encourage violent and coercive action as he does without risking his position...
...made his first public appearance in several years to honor the man who had published his anti-Stalinist novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Solzhenitsyn did not speak, but his simple presence made Tvardovsky's funeral a testimony for cultural freedom. Earlier, Solzhenitsyn offered more outspoken testimony in the same cause. In a letter to Dr. Karl Gierow, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, he sarcastically offered his own apartment as a setting for the presentation of his Nobel medal. If the Swedish embassy was still unavailable, he said, he would be happy to deliver...
...agreement allowing Chrysler Motors to market Mitsubishi's Colt in the U.S., the first such deal between Detroit and a Japanese manufacturer. Makita took unabashed pride in the fact that Mitsubishi's chief products during World War 11 were warships and Zero fighter planes, and was an outspoken advocate of Japan's rearmament "Now that our G.N.P. is third in the world," he said, "now that we are among the rich, we have to guard against burglars...