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Word: inveigh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing Congress." Murray Weidenbaum of Washington University in St. Louis urges repeal of many Inflationary federal regulations. "My advice is: 'Don't just stand there, undo something.' " But Heller figures that all the Government can do to head off stagflation is "pray and inveigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Prices: Some Small Relief | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

Still, the official moralistic ethic-it might almost be called Puritan-prevails. China's leaders inveigh against the licentious life-style of the imperial past. When Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing first came under attack, she was frequently portrayed as a latter-day Empress Wu Tse-t'ien, whose career began in the 7th century as a 13-year-old court concubine and ended in an orgy of sex and assassination. Another execrated royal personage is the 8th century Emperor Hsüan Tsung, who was hopelessly enamored of a shapely concubine, Yang Kuei...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Beyond Confucius and Kung Fu | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...black neighbors who lived near MOVE did not resent the group as much as the middle-class whites living on the other side of the city. Right after the shooting, 300 infuriated black neighbors gathered at the scene of the battle to yell at police, throw rocks and inveigh against the blatant racism of the police. The protestors said the violence could easily have been avoided had the police left MOVE in peace...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Summer in the City | 9/21/1978 | See Source »

...problem with Nixon's oratory about "law-and-order" is that the President of the U.S. has little direct responsibility for crime in the streets (except in Washington, D.C.). Nixon can inveigh against "permissive judges," as he recently did, and he can appoint to the federal judiciary men he considers of sterner stuff, but federal courts normally do not try muggers, just as federal police do not normally pursue murderers. What the President can do is to urge Congress to provide money, and that Nixon has done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Street Crime: Who's Winning? | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

...abandonment of outmoded conservative doctrine, the Nixon Administration had moved much more swiftly and thoroughly than did the Eisenhower Administration.... After the Nixon Administration's record, Republican candidates can no longer inveigh against big government, budget deficits, government subsidies, or federal regulation of the economy...

Author: By E.j. Dionne, | Title: Ashbrook Shrugged | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

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