Word: outtalk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Short and powerfully built, Quan can outswear a gale of wind -- and outtalk even the most talkative Chinese. He reminds me of Robert Strauss, the former Democratic national chairman; Quan too, I am convinced, could talk a hungry dog out of a pork chop...
...secret of the militant left has been its patient cultivation of party members at the grass roots. Their technique? Simply to outlast and outtalk older party members. Under pressure from families or jobs, the elders are not as inclined as the militants to argue politics into the wee hours. Protests right-wing Dissident Leader Shirley Williams: "When the moderates resist, they are howled down...