Word: outspoken
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...Foot race is escalating in Britain. Outspoken Newsman Michael Foot, 51, of the weekly London Tribune, is stepping up in Westminster as a Labor party M. P., while his brother Dingle, 59, the new government's Solicitor General, will soon be knighted and hang out his shingle as Sir Dingle. Meanwhile the left Foots' forthright brother, Sir Hugh Foot, 57, sometime colonial governor and Britain's U.N. delegate, is about to be made a lord, and must decide what name to take after it. am afraid," says he, "that use of 'the Baron Foot' might...
Keating used to be thought of as quiet, dignified, and unimposing; but in this campaign, he has projected the image of a man who is outspoken, angry, and self-asserting...
Scott has little political use for Goldwater, is an outspoken moderate Republican. "I was born a conservative," he says, "and have become increasingly liberal. Most of my friends started out as liberals and became conservative." At the Republican Convention, he was floor manager for Bill Scranton and, after Goldwater's nomination, made some sounds about refusing to support Barry...
...King Constantine and Princess Anne-Marie than the Greeks were back at their favorite political sport of monarchy baiting. The main target was not the popular newlyweds, still off on their island honeymoon, but the bridegroom's pert mother, German-born Queen Frederika, 47, whose good looks and outspoken views have embroiled her in controversy ever since she came to Greece 26 years ago as the bride of the late King Paul...
...democracy because it requires a "cool and phlegmatic temperament that only people living in cold climates seem to have." Accord ingly, only 80,000 "basic democrats"-out of a total population of 100 million -are allowed to vote for the President and legislature, and Ayub has jailed his most outspoken critics...