Word: shrillings
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...working with the President on unspecified matters, reported that Nixon had not so much as talked on the telephone with his counsels in charge of the Watergate problem, J. Fred Buzhardt and Leonard Garment. That doubtless contributed to the confusion over the nature and authorization of Buzhardt's shrill statement sent to the Ervin committee...
...desperate kind of sexuality, then thwarts it. But there the similarity ends. Robert Shaw portrays a stolid, ambitious owner of a small hired-car firm. Sarah Miles the balmy aristocrat whom he chauffeurs and who drives hi, in turn, to excess es of frustration. Miles' meager talents, her shrill, spindly posturings, have lost through incessant repetition the small novelty they might once have...
...very simple," Simons said. "Garry Trudeau is making a statement that we think ought to be made in due process of law. We do this kind of thing fairly regularly. We used to drop Feiffer sometimes--he got a little shrill. We drop Jack Anderson occasionally. It's called editing. It's a noble profession...
...kibbutzim near the Golan Heights were put to bed every night in bomb shelters; in the end, Israel stormed those seemingly unassailable enemy positions and sent the Syrians scuttling toward Damascus. The Israelis persevere manfully with the Hebrew language, despite the fact that almost every conversation is punctuated with shrill cries of "Mai? Mai?" (What? What?) because so many people are still amateur...
...With an eye toward triggering the initial move in the sequence--Harvard's public divestiture--the two groups quickened their organizing tempo last Spring culminating with the six-day occupation of Mass Hall. In the process, they skillfully orchestrated a campaign that included intelligible leaflets, reasonable demands devoid of shrill rhetoric, and a sensitive appreciation of the difficulty of informing the community on an initially obscure issue. When their campaign peaked with the occupation, picket lines numbering at times as high as a thousand, circled outside the embattled building...