Word: strident
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electronic devices--telephone wiretaps and hidden "bugs"--to gather evidence to fight crime and protect the national security. Last summer the Supreme Court nullified a tax evasion conviction on the grounds that evidence used was obtained illegally. Throughout the summer and early fall, there were strident cries for statutory limitations on such activities--with particular reference to those carried out by the F.B.I. And last weekend, F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover and his former boss, ex-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, accused each other of being responsible for the buggings from...
...direction of the Great Society. There will be demands for expanding it; as Poverty War Commander Sargent Shriver puts it, "We were just about to put the bottle in the baby's mouth, and we find there's damned little milk to give." There will be equally strident demands for contracting it; with the Viet Nam war siphoning off billions of dollars, a big budgetary deficit is in prospect unless spending is cut somewhere...
...leaders will be more in line with the national Party. Spong's impressive victory could also dampen a potentially explosive split among Virginia's Democrats. His candidacy against Robertson in the Primary was closely watched by the "extreme" liberal wing of the Party. Should he have failed, strident anti-Machine candidates would have been in a much stronger position to demand a crack at statewide offices in 1969. If this polarization ever occurs, it will seriously impair Democratic chances in Virginia for many years to come...
Along with its readership of solid citizens, Figaro generally supports De Gaulle, though some of its columnists harshly criticize him. It is more sympathetic to the U.S. than any other French publication and is less strident in its criticism of the U.S. role in Viet Nam. But it also makes a point of defending French standards against the onslaught of foreign customs, has tried to ban everything from bubble gum to the English-language prefix "super." "We've always been non-engage," says Editor Louis Gabriel-Robinet. "We've never belonged to any political party-just the party...
Between them, the foursome manages to get through the piece roughly as written-with a few soppy sequences thrown in to justify everyone's moral lapses. The more sparkling passages, alas, lie smothered under Hollywood's big-screen Technicolor treatment. The tone is too strident, the color too bright, the running around from rooftop cafes to picturesque playgrounds too aimless...