Word: shrillest
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...shrillest of the Fundamentalist ideologues in Washington is the Rev. Tim LaHaye, 59, who moved to the capital from San Diego last year. He runs the new American Coalition for Traditional Values (ACTV, pronounced active), which has been praised by Reagan and is endorsed by Falwell. A Baptist, LaHaye is lobbying in the capital and also building a network of clergy activists in more than 300 cities. He speaks of Reagan's presidency as , nothing less than God-ordained ("the Heavenly Father looked down and saw our plight") and says a second Carter Administration "might have plunged us into another...
...last week the escalating attacks on Volcker both by the Administration and in Congress had reached their shrillest pitch yet. Said Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee in graphically blunt terms: "It is time for the Fed to give us a little air, to get its foot off the nation's neck and give the economy an opportunity to recover...