Word: outspokenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lion ) that never happened (because the amazing British beat off Goring's air assault). In Russia, he opened the fortified gateway to the Crimean peninsula, stormed the Russian Black Sea naval bastion at Sevastopol, and led the counterattack that retook Kharkov in March 1943. Hitler, disliking his outspoken manners as much as he depended on his ability, finally fired him in 1944, first acknowledging: "Manstein is perhaps the best brain that the General Staff Corps has produced...
...promptly hit back with a proclamation that "the battle against the Junge Gemeinde is a battle against the church." Berlin's Catholic Bishop Wilhelm Weskamm accused the government of going "over into open infringement of the rights of the church." Protestant and Catholic churchmen all over Germany launched outspoken counterattacks...
...Chicago, TV Sportscaster Tom Duggan has as many detractors among his 250,000 viewers as he has fans, but they all get some sort of kick out of his outspoken opinions. Last February, when Duggan was fired by NBC's station WNBQ for saying on the air that President Jim Norris of the International Boxing Club was "palling around with gangsters," the station was swamped with protests. An NBC apology persuaded Norris to withdraw his libel suit and Duggan was returned...
Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Fellows, was honored for his weekly news broadcast, receiving first honorable mention for presentation of news interpretation He was praised "for an excellent analysis by an outspoken and responsible reporter...
What does Maugham do when he isn't writing about the Hares and the Sadie Thompsons of the world? Often, he admits in another essay, he curls up with a bad book, a whodunit. An outspoken fan of Raymond (The Big Sleep) Chandler, Maugham nonetheless argues that the detective story has been played out ever since readers wised up to, and writers exhausted, all possible plot gimmicks...