Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much Young can achieve. They point out that after the fires of rhetoric have burned low and the time comes for the casting of votes or vetoes, the U.S. ambassador is expected to follow State Department instructions. Young is aware of how little he can do if his orders clash with his conscience. As he said...
Blood Brothers. Such a prospect stirs suspicions and concern among Ulster's traditional politicians-both Protestant and Catholic. Their worry: McKeown's vision of an "ideal democracy" organized "from the bottom up" could clash with what essentially will have to be a political and constitutional solution. Some also fear a crippling backlash of cynicism should the peace movement, like others before it, falter after a headline-grabbing series of rallies. "I have no great faith in it," says a leading Catholic politician. "The people of Ulster are not all blood brothers, as the movement says. They are still...
...actions indicate that Burns, like Carter, is worried by the persistence of the lull in the business recovery and strengthen hopes that the two can avoid an outright clash over economic policy. Speculation that they might be on a collision course arose shortly after the election, when Burns warned Congress that stimulation of the economy risked speeding up inflation. But Burns was careful not to come out flatly against the tax cut that many of Carter's economic advisers want. Lately he has been passing the word that he might eventually back a cut if the economy continues...
...concluding Vivace was delivered with commensurate verve and clash, the underlying percussion adding as much excitement to the finish as they had eeriness to the start...
There was almost an evocation of Paris bistros in "Ile de France," the third part, which was swooning and quick-paced, ending on a sudden clash but not as movingly played as the others. The reflective quality of the winds, controlled and temperate, suffused the grave "Alsace-Lorraine," which seemed most to beckon recollections of the Second World War. The Concert Band have a rather moving, swelling climax here, and the tolling of the drums came across well with contrasting dolefullness and sobriety amid the dance of the winds at the end. "Provence," the last part, contained the richest melodies...