Word: outspoken
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...communist ideology but still strives to control its restive populace. Faced with a social phenomenon that would use up huge amounts of time, manpower and international goodwill to curb, Beijing's cadres have decided to tolerate the new churches so long as they keep a low profile. The more outspoken and organized such groups become, however, the greater the threat they pose to the authority of the Communist Party. For the moment, that influence is confined to local issues related to their faith, such as church building and education. But observers say the challenge could grow, as churches continue...
...label that stuck to him ? "sick dirty Lenny" ? had its drawbacks. Frequent arrests, for example. But the advantage of being outspoken was that he could speak about anything. Most comedians marched to a very conventional tune. A few, like Sahl and Dick Gregory, specialized in political satire; a few others, like Redd Foxx and Belle Barth, did "blue" material, at least by 50s standards. (Today it would barely be aqua.) Lenny's satire was more ferocious than Sahl's, his language saltier and more freewheeling than Foxx's. This combination of topic and tone, and the fact that nobody else...
...That's where lawyers for Marine Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, the 26-year-old who was the unit leader that day in Haditha, called U.S. Congressman John Murtha a liar. Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat who served as a Marine in Vietnam and who in recent months has become increasingly outspoken in his opposition to the Iraq war, said in May 2006 that based on briefings from the military that Marines in Haditha "overreacted because of the pressure on them and killed innocent civilians in cold blood...
...John C. Jeffries, Jr., derived not so much from his view of the law as a belief that forcing women to have unwanted children was costly for the kids, as well as the mothers. Various sources shaped his thinking, said Jeffries, but one was particularly persuasive: Molly, "the most outspoken" of Powell's three daughters...
...guide our nation's leaders more than any other consideration, it is almost quaint that a prominent public official would pay attention to his daughter's advice, no matter how informed. Vice President Dick Cheney, for one, appears unmoved by the views of his daughter Mary, a lesbian whose outspoken support for gay rights hasn't kept him from consistently backing right-wing positions at odds with equality for gays. Sure, he broke with the President on a constitutional amendment against gay marriage, but his stance that each state should decide whether gays can marry is looking like a distinction...