Word: strident
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happy to account for it. He is optimistic that by continued persuasion and pressure -"the jawbone technique," in Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler's phrase -he can keep the booming U.S. economy from spiraling out of control. On the international scene, he can only be reassured by the strident argy-bargy between Moscow and Peking, despite some pundits' predictions that the U.S. stand in Viet Nam could only induce harmony between the two great Communist powers (see THE WORLD). As for the war itself, the President is firmly convinced that the patient and sustained application of U.S. power will...
There is probably no concession the U.S. could make that would mollify aging Mao Tse-tung's strident, frequently hysterical anti-Americanism. Nonetheless, both witnesses argued, Mao's successors-and their successors-might be more amenable to reason, and the U.S. should encourage any sign of mellowing in the Chinese revolution. Though Mao would hardly appreciate the comparison, Fairbank said that the Chinese leader actually more closely resembles the prototypical Chinese emperor than any of his heroes in the Marxist pantheon. Eventually, he said, the better side of the feudal Chinese ruler may reassert itself in his successors...
...become more isolated and sealed off than any other Communist state (including Stalin's Russia). Led by aging, ethnocentric men with little personal knowledge of the world beyond, it feels encircled and threatened on every side. When it directs its voice to the outside world, its normally strident tones now verge on hysteria...
...Kennedy Appointees Griffin Bell and Lewis Morgan, held that Tuttle's dissent was too restrictive on the lawmakers, since there is nothing in the Georgia constitution to compel the house to seat a member "if a reasonable basis . . . exists for the denial." Bond's endorsement of the strident antiwar policy of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, said the two judges, is such a reasonable basis...
...risk and the responsibility for the war were, of course, Lyndon Johnson's. "We will stand in Viet Nam," he said in July. Thereafter, the President moved resolutely to make good that pledge, weathering open criticism from within his own party, strident protest from the Vietnik fringe, and the disapprobation of friendly nations from the Atlantic to the China...