Word: shrillest
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Ustinov's blast from the pages of Pravda sounded the shrillest note in a Soviet propaganda campaign that has gathered unusual force. The objective: to head off the deployment in Western Europe of nuclear missiles aimed, for the first time, at the Soviet Union itself. The rest of the controlled Soviet press pulled out all the stops in cautioning about the dangers of a new arms race. Uniformed generals made rare personal appearances on television, to talk about "the peace policy of the Communist Party." Soviet officials in Moscow, unusually attentive to Western journalists, argued that the missile build...
...Among the Democrats, the shrillest voices are not finding much of an echo. On the left, Fred Harris has all but dropped out; on the right, George Wallace is virtually eliminated. Challenged by Jimmy Carter in North Carolina and Florida, he has failed to win even in the South. Part of the change must be attributed to his health, but it also has to do with the new mood that no longer responds to Wallace's old appeal of discontent. Henry Jackson won in both Massachusetts and New York, but his pugnaciousness may not wear well nationally...
Shrill Campuses. With more passion than logic, other businessmen blame Watergate for the poor business climate. But the shrillest cries for the President's removal come from the campuses. Student demonstrations are lackadaisical by the standards of the late '60s, but petitions are circulating in just about every school in the Midwest, and campus papers are having a field...
...still going full bore. Back then, the five-member Standing Committee of the Politburo was dominated by the stars of Mao's cherished ideological left. Easily the most visible figure on the political scene was Mao's wife Chiang Ching, the onetime movie actress who became the shrillest voice of the Cultural Revolution. Another luminary was Chen Pota, whose considerable skill as Mao's longtime ghostwriter earned him the No. 4 spot in the party hierarchy by 1967, when the Red Guard rampages reached their peak. ∙ Four years and several purges later, the Politburo...
...shrillest cries of the disaffected young has revolved around a lack of legal avenues to change the System. No more. Last Wednesday in an extraordinary evening session, the Ohio house of representatives, by a vote of 81 to 9, made Ohio the 38th state to approve the 26th Amendment to the Constitution. That was sufficient for ratification, which means that 18-to 20-year-olds will be able to vote in all elections, local and state as well as federal...