Word: outspokenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indiana's oratorically reckless (but politically shrewd) William E. Jenner, 49, ardent supporter of the late Joe McCarthy, and McCarthy's successor as the Senate's most outspoken right-winger. Jenner's curt and unexpected announcement, stating no reason for his decision, shocked Indiana Republicans, who had considered him a good bet to win in 1958 no matter whom the Democrats nominated. Groping for an explanation of Jenner's decision, Republican State Chairman Robert Matthews said the Senator was "just tired of carrying on the fight for conservatism by himself." But some observers of Indiana...
Indestructible Tallulah Bankhead, fond of regarding herself as the most outspoken lady of the U.S. theater, tersely philosophized on the contemporary T-shirt school of Methodical actors: "They're just wasting themselves. They're just learning to be a bunch of apes. They'll never be able to perform the classics or Shakespearean dramas. They're just learning how to pick their noses...
...Most outspoken of those condemning the incident was Princeton police chief John H. Smith. "We intend to prosecute those boys to the fullest extent of the law," he declared...
Unlike German publishers of the '30s, who through ambition or complaisance became propaganda tools for Hitler, Axel Springer is an outspoken internationalist and firm friend of the West who believes that his mission, in his own words, is to "help the 'other' Germany, the nonmilitant, peaceful Germany of great scientists, great spirits, great minds." He is also untypical of European publishers in having no apparent political ties or ambition...
Died. Herman Welker, 50, outspoken, aggressive one-term (1951-56) Republican Senator from Idaho, diehard reactionary and staunch McCarthy supporter; of a brain tumor; in Washington...