Word: strident
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russian crew had been busy repainting the grey-green hull and white deckhouse, and touching up the crisp black Cyrillic letters of its name. U.S. helicopters hovered overhead, watching the Russians watching them, and a Navy resupply ship circled near by while its band serenaded the Gidrofon with strident capitalist rock 'n' roll. No sooner had the Gidrofon left than a new trawler appeared on Yankee Station: the Ampermetr. The Conserver was also relieved; Hilder and his crew set off for some well-deserved R and R in Hong Kong, and a fresh set of skunk chasers took...
...California and three other Western states. Just how much it might hurt Democratic prospects was demonstrated on the other side of the continent the same day. In Georgia, moderate former Governor Ellis Arnall entered a runoff for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination as a heavy favorite against Lester Maddox, a strident racist who first made headlines by refusing to integrate his Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta after passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Maddox became a hero to the racists at that time by giving white customers at his fried-chicken restaurant ax handles-he called them "Pickrick drumsticks"-to keep...
Their first morning in Washington, Marcos and Imelda were escorted to the north portico of the White House. There Lyndon Johnson's warm greeting reflected his gratitude for Marcos' decision, in the face of strong congressional opposition and strident criticism from local leftists and nationalists, to commit a 2,000-man Filipino force to Viet Nam. On the eve of his departure for his 15-day U.S. swing, Marcos had seen off 700 members of a security battalion before they boarded two Saigon-bound troopships. Said Johnson, obviously moved: "Your people and mine have shared suffering and victory...
Shoestring papers of the strident left are popping up like weeds across the U.S. Their editors, writers and subscribers represent a curious coalition of hipsters and beatniks, college students and teachers, political zealots and the just plain artsy-craftsy. Their subject matter is largely anti-Establishment protest: they are typically against the war in Viet Nam, against the draft and against the police. President Johnson is their favorite whipping boy, and it is unlikely that he could win them over even if he changed his initials from L.B.J...
Even before the first U.S. bombing raids on oil depots at Hanoi and Haiphong June 29, North Viet Nam's leaders threatened to stage "war criminal" show trials of captured American airmen. Last week, after a strident propaganda barrage from Hanoi, that threat seemed likely to become reality...