Word: shrill
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...welfare, rented Russian-made films to show in neighborhood theaters, and bragged openly of her high-level Soviet contacts. FBI agents, who interviewed Svetlana often after 1980, welcomed the tidbits she freely offered about her frequent visits to the Soviet consulate in San Francisco, but never considered that the shrill, boastful housewife could actually be a dangerous...
...flowered. It's still tentative. The baby boomers, says Wheeler, who is a Republican, "have a sense that life isn't as simple as in the old days. They can't slip into simplistic, chauvinistic patriotism. Theirs is a generous and mature patriotism, [not] thin and shrill." Ron Hayes, a Minnesota farm-management teacher, is seven years older than Wheeler, and just over the generational line. "When they play The Star-Spangled Banner" Hayes says, "I can still feel a chill up my spine. But I doubt if my kids are like that." Maybe, maybe...
...main factor behind the decision. Suspense had been building for weeks about the East German leader's visit. The Soviet Union had made clear, in a virulent propaganda campaign against the West Germans, that Honecker ought to think twice about seeking to improve relations with Bonn. The shrill tone of the attacks left no doubt that Moscow expected East Berlin to support to the full the Soviet hard line against the deployment of new U.S.-built missiles in Western Europe...
...superpower relations. After each new difficulty, it seems, Washington and Moscow have tried to match charge with countercharge. As the distance separating the U.S. and the Soviet Union has grown wider, those words have begun to echo loudly across the gap. The world last week still heard the shrill reverberations from President Reagan's unfortunate joke about bombing Russia. As the Soviets took full advantage of the incident with denunciations and pious indignation, the Reagan Administration weighed in with yet another affront: the message that it considers the Soviet subjugation of Eastern Europe to be far from permanent. Amid...
Bush could be hampered by his Establishment background (old money, Andover, Yale) and his brittle mien. His somewhat shrill voice, unmodulated even after professional coaching, could grate next to Ferraro's homey lilt. "He sounds a little too hyper, a little too screechy," the ex-aide concedes...