Word: outspokenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told his constituents rather bitterly. "I have only agreed at the personal request of the Prime Minister." Even in his brief term as Foreign Secretary, Eden had found him too independent-minded ("Macmillan has never taken kindly to his master's voice," observed the News Chronicle). Specifically, outspoken Harold Macmillan was much less optimistic than Eden about the value of negotiation with the Russians, was angrily ready to cancel or postpone next spring's scheduled visit of Khrushchev and Bulganin to London after the Russians' insulting remarks in India and Burma...
...American Psychoanalytic Association stepped away from their couches and journeyed to Manhattan for their winter meeting. At scientific sessions there was little to distinguish them from any other group of medical specialists;* they jampacked smoke-filled rooms and listened to the latest theories with polite interest, though they were outspoken in disbelief of some of the more farfetched items...
...board member) by the company board. It is headed by 61-year-old Roger Ferger, who held the same top job under the old regime, the McLean estate, and was also a key figure in the paper's purchase by its employees. Ratliff himself gave the most outspoken statement of the board's reasons: "They say I was fired for 'disloyalty, conspiracy to undermine normal channels, attempts to stampede and coerce, persistently fomenting discord . . .' I deny these charges." Instead, the veteran newsman accused the paper's top management of feathering its own nest...
...Anglican Father Trevor Huddleston, South Africa's great enemy of apartheid (TIME, Nov. 14), showed newsmen a remarkable document. It was a letter from a government official named Hertzog Biermann, and it typified the bitterness which, in the name of God, many white South Africans harbor against an outspoken man of God. Excerpts...
...crisis began to simmer a fortnight ago, involving Lott's right to discipline an outspoken golpista army colonel. This dispute turned into a decisive test of strength between Lott and the golpe faction. In the midst of the crisis, a heart attack flattened President Joāo Café Filho, and the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Carlos Luz, took over as Brazil's Acting President. Luz, suspected of being a golpista, ruled against War Minster Lott in the affair of the loose-lipped colonel. Lott resigned, and Luz promptly named a golpista general as War Minister...