Word: outspoken
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Pusey is not a man of bold action. The Faculty is not geared to make quick decisions based on political events. Yet the events of this year taught them that they must learn how to be bold and outspoken if they are to retain any shred of respect that students might still hold for them...
...House says that it expects the South Vietnamese to follow suit, there is no guarantee that they will do so. "I have no deadline," said President Nguyen Van Thieu. And, he added, his troops would enter Cambodia "again and again, if necessary." Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky was equally outspoken. Resplendent in black flying suit and purple scarf, Ky helicoptered into Neak Luong and told newsmen that ARVN troops would remain in Cambodia for "at least months." When the Cambodians "can fight the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong by themselves, we will go home," said Ky, sounding like...
...barrier is the lack of a strong female contingent in labor unions. Though more than two out of five workers are women, only one out of five union members is a woman. Detroit's outspoken Labor Leader Myra Wolfgang figures that men labor chiefs-harboring some old prejudices-really believe that women are overly individualistic, selfish and impulsive and lack the discipline to forgo immediate benefits in order to work for long-range organizational goals. To those indictments women reply that men are the unfair...
...your Gunter Grass cover story [April 13], you refer to former West German Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss as having once been a member of the Nazi party. Strauss was never a member of the Nazi party. On the contrary, Strauss's father, a butcher, was an outspoken anti-Nazi. As for Strauss himself, he was drafted into the army, and his repeated criticism of Hitler's war caused him no end of trouble. At war's end, having been cleared of any Nazi connections by the American occupation forces, he was made a civilian administrative official...
...some people who did not like their government's foreign policy and who opposed it from the left. I suspected that such people might exist, since many Israelis in the U.S. are unhappy with their government's policy, and I had heard speeches and read articles by several outspoken Israelis who felt that their government was not working in the best interests of their country or of peace...