Word: outspoken
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...outspoken association of 40,000 judges, lawyers and law professors from more than 60 non-Communist countries does not really expect to reform the world. But it is convinced that publicizing any infraction of the rule of law serves an immediate and practical purpose. The presence and protest of a commission jurist at the 1960 "trial" of deposed Democrats in Turkey transformed that mob-ringed Roman circus overnight into an orderly judicial proceeding. And the glare of the commission's carefully documented study, Spain and the Rule of Law, eventually persuaded once furious Spanish officials to discuss incommunicado detentions...
...prosperous Mexico (Mo.) Ledger, to Minneapolis Star & Tribune President John Cowles. But the out-of-towners never made it. The afternoon Tucson Daily Citizen (circ. 45,000) beat them to the draw by anteing up $10 million for the Star because of "a desire to see this strong, outspoken newspaper remain a vital force in Tucson, rather than become just another link in a chain...
...agreement ended: McNamara awarded the contract for building the plane to the General Dynamics Corp., which had submitted proposals for a more costly and, in the eyes of the military brass, less efficient aircraft than one designed by Boeing. There were all sorts of charges of political skullduggery; outspoken unhappiness with McNamara's decision was partly instrumental in the failure of Admiral George W. Anderson Jr. to win reappointment as Navy chief of operations...
...testified to the peculiar sense of helplessness that life under Communism brings to the thinking idealist. Some are the muffled voices that come out of the chill fog of post-Stalinist "thaws," others angry protests of those driven to refuge in the West. Few have been more bitterly outspoken or better qualified to speak than Rumanian Novelist Petru Dumitriu, 40. Before he defected, Dumitriu's novels were widely read in Eastern Europe; he had been loaded with decorations and had risen to be editor of the country's most important literary magazine and director of the State Publishing...
...deposed Nikita Khrushchev loomed over the outspoken Supreme Soviet meeting in Moscow, his lingering influence was felt even more strongly at the Yugoslav Communist Party Congress in Belgrade, where things were relatively frank...