Word: rousingness
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But while the pros are saying no, the grass roots are shouting yes. Rural farmers are inspired by Jackson's sermons on the value of the vote; teen-age urban blacks are turned on by his clenched-fist determination; the downtrodden hear in his ringing tones an authentic voice for...
The President opened the hostilities on Monday with a rousing attack on "irresponsible spending" by Congress. Appearing before the National Association of Home Builders, Reagan ticked off a series of possible revenue-raising measures that were at various times considered, but never adopted, by the liberal Democrats in Congress. Each...
Such, except for the unsexed hero, is the stuff of rousing historical fiction. Pilgermann is that and several other things as well. In Riddley Walker (1981), his fourth novel, Russell Hoban proved himself a master of the unexpected viewpoint. He imagined life several millenniums after a nuclear holocaust and then...
Modern geopolitics and warfare changed the governmental attitude. Franklin Roosevelt understood the strategic importance of Latin America during World War II. Harry Truman endorsed those ideas. Dwight Eisenhower was humiliated by Fidel Castro's Marxist government, and Ike planned the Bay of Pigs, which John Kennedy launched and bungled...
The applause was thunderous, the hand-lettered signs jubilant. HOW DO YOU SPELL RELIEF? read one. RUCKELSHAUS. William Doyle Ruckelshaus, 50, the Environmental Protection Agency's first administrator a decade ago, came home last week to a rousing hero's welcome. "The trust of the public is sacred...