Word: outspokenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, by Margaret Coit. A spirited biography of the great ante bellum South Carolinian who, as Congressman, Secretary of War and Vice President, was the outspoken champion of states' rights and the South's slave-owning aristocracy (TIME, March...
...Left-wing Laborites like ardent, outspoken Aneurin Bevan (see above) complained that Labor would have done better if it had fought a more militant, more frankly leftish campaign. There is no objective reason to believe this. Both major parties drove for the middle, squeezing the Liberals between them. In the doubting mood of the British electorate, these cautious tactics were probably sound for both sides...
...Demanded by Gabrielson and reluctantly hammered together by a group of Congressmen-who would rather have run on their own records and on local issues-the statement was just what might have been expected of the product of so many hands. It was guarded where it should have been outspoken; diffuse where it might have been concise. It sounded no clarion...
...pastoral letter, signed by all the bishops of the province and approving the Social Action principles of Quebec's liberal clergy, was being prepared for reading in the churches of the province within a month. That would strengthen the stand of such other pro-labor prelates as the outspoken Rev. Georges-Henri Levesque, dean of Laval University's faculty of social sciences, Sherbrooke's Bishop Philippe Desranleau, and Quebec City's Archbishop Maurice...
...completely contemporary. In 1942 it hired star Manhattan Designer Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings to match the best Queen Anne and Louis Quatorze with sleek modern. By this year most other companies had gotten into the act, were turning out their own handsome lines in native American woods. An outspoken critic (Goodbye, Mr. Chippendale) of both fake antique and engine-room modern, Robsjohn-Gibbings sounded off for Grand Rapids modern last week. Said he: "People aren't fools. In general, the public taste is right and we must realize that modern furniture must be designed on the public...