Word: strident
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Honorary Associate of the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics provided an opportunity to better understand this fact. Rustin is one of the Grand Old Men of the Negro Movement. But his long experience in social activism brings him much closer in spirit than his contemporaries to his more strident successors. From singing with Leadbelly in the '30's to protest movements in America, England, South Africa and India -- not to mention two marches on Washington in the space of 20 years -- Rustin's life has been a busy and colorful...
...enough, endorsed with enthusiasm by Europe's Communist press. France's L'Humanité declared that "the evils that the encyclical calls attention to" are those that "Marxists have been calling attention to for more than a century." In fact, parts of Populorum Progressio had the strident tone of an early 20th century Marxist polemic-which, to some readers, was precisely its flaw...
...letter, according to one of the signers, will adopt a "more strident tone" than any of the students' two previous letters. They wrote one to Johnson on Dec. 31, covered on the front page of the New York Times, and another to Rusk on Jan. 30, a day before their meeting at the State Department...
...danger, it turned out, was nonexistent. In this strident attack on the wartime sequestration, Allan R. Bosworth, 65, a retired U.S. Navy captain, points out that no Japanese American was ever accused of sabotage or treason in the continental U.S. Indeed, a large number of the internees volunteered for duty with a regiment composed solely of Nisei, and they set an enviable combat record in Italy. The regiment became the most decorated fighting unit in U.S. history...
Their objective has been twofold. They have wanted, first and most obviously, to provide a means of expression for broad-based moderate dissatisfaction with the war, an alternative to the strident protest of the New Left. In the belief that student discontent is prevalent and that the Administration may soon decide whether to further escalate the war, they have sought to mobilize a "middle course of opposition...