Word: shrilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter was greeted with a sigh of relief by White House officials, some of whom feared that the document might be polemically shrill. Spokesman Larry Speakes said that President Reagan "welcomed" the economics draft and shared "the bishops' concern for the poor." Speakes cited the fact that "more than 6 million people have gotten jobs in the last 22 months" as evidence of the success of the Administration's policies...
...experts proclaim Bush the winner. But your analysis proves otherwise. Why beat around the Bush? Gerry was shrewd, and George was shrill...
...Democrat Booth Gardner, 48, the little-known chief executive of Pierce County, that the bland, cautious Spellman wound up with a mere 27% of the total vote. The latest polls show Gardner, a crisp administrator with a Harvard M.B.A., running 17% ahead of Spellman. The Governor has taken to shrill attacks on his opponent, charging Gardner with being a "shill of labor" who left his county "a shambles...
...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...