Word: outspokenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next came an attack on Ike, the most outspoken Stevenson has made during his pre-convention tours. Said Adlai: "We hear the President declare he hasn't read what his Secretary of State says . . . And from Washington, Gettysburg and Southern plantations we hear the President expressing renewed confidence in his team. To put it politely, I must say that the head coach seems to have missed some plays and not to be too sure of the score...
...while Mr. Stevenson hedges on these important political issues, he is refreshingly aware and outspoken about such intellectual concerns as the threat of thought conformity--the victory of "the army of mass mediocrity, with banners flying," led by "the neo-heathens." What I Think is thus a very unusual book. Published by a Presidential candidate in the middle of his campaign, it reveals a unique combination of political realism with an unsurrendered intellectual idealism. Yet although the book reviewers may speak now, the real judgement must await next November...
...several tense days before Madrid returned to an outward calm, plainclothesmen patrolled the streets, and thousands of grey-uniformed, Tommy gun-toting police stood by for instant duty. Foreigners were halted and asked to show proof of their identity. Prizewinning Cinema Director Juan Antonio Bardem (noted for his outspoken film Death of a Cyclist) was picked up while making a new picture with U.S. Filmactress Betsy (Marty) Blair, wife of Hollywood's Gene Kelly. While the Falangist newspaper Arriba hysterically blamed the "hostile foreign press" for instigating violence, Dictator Franco postponed his dearly loved annual deer and boar hunt...
This problem of existing interests occurs in other forms. The non-resident landlord wants to keep milking his holdings. He is vehement when the city offers to tear them down. But he is not nearly so outspoken as the resident who is told to fix his home, at his own expense, in order that its value, and its taxes, should rise. In Boston, Mayor Hynes has promised not to raise taxes on rehabilitated housing, but he will not be mayor forever...
This is the second time that Thomson, an outspoken foe of the Forum, has been under fire for tampering with Forum speakers. In November, he admitted urging Sen. John Bricker (Rep.-Ohio) not to address the Forum...