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Word: outspokenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Church of England, whose canons against marriage after divorce form the sternest deterrent, was split on the matter. A newspaper poll of 100 Anglican clergymen revealed that 85 would refuse to officiate at the proposed marriage, 13 would be willing to marry the pair, two were undecided. One outspoken churchman, Canon Charles Kirkland of Canterbury, told an audience of mothers last week that the Princess "contemplates doing something which is deliberately an affront both to religion and the church." Some other Anglican churchmen were quick to condemn these words as "cruel and unjust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Time for Decision | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...academy's mythical "41st chair," reserved by legend for those who never made the grade, has been occupied by such greats as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose loose living and houseful of illegitimate children were too much for the academicians; Encyclopedist Denis Diderot, who was a deal too outspoken; and plump, ill-dressed, Bohemian Honoré de Balzac, who seemed just too much of a mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Green Fever | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...where apparently wild-minded Guy Burgess, the well-schooled son of a Royal Navy officer, first met Donald Maclean, son of a former Cabinet minister and a young man with a promising future. Both moved in Communist circles. It was just before the Spanish Civil War, and both were outspoken in their dissatisfaction with the conduct of world affairs, Maclean to the point of declaring that he wanted to work for the Russians. It was at this time, says Petrov, that they were recruited into the Soviet espionage service. Maclean entered the Foreign Office. Burgess took to journalism, joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Missing Spies | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...favor of lowering the barriers of world trade. Last January the President said: "It is essential for the security of the U.S. and the rest of the free world that the U.S. take the leadership in promoting the achievement of high levels of trade." Only because of the outspoken White House advocacy did the 84th Congress, reluctantly and by the narrowest of margins, pass a liberalized foreign-trade bill this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD TRADE: Tide v. Undertow | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...Formosa. Nobody accused General Sun himself of conspiring with the Communists-only of not knowing about and not quelling subversive activities on his staff. Nevertheless, many who are engaged in Formosa's involved politics wondered how the general had survived as long as he had. Short, taut and outspoken, Sun was burning with the conviction that Formosa could not go on under its present leadership and its foreseeable prospects. Unique among top commanders in his fluency in English (learned at V.M.I, and Purdue), he had often privately confided to visitors that the defeats on the mainland the troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: End of a Career | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

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