Word: strident
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Ayub's imposing victory, the government-controlled press began soft-pedaling the strident anti-Americanism that it had found a useful tool in the campaign. One top official, Ghulam Nabi Memon, blandly denied having made his widely published charge that the U.S. was financing the Jinnah campaign. After all, Ayub had now been elected to a five-year term, and he badly needed continued U.S. aid-which has totaled nearly $5 billion since...
...below decks was strident...
...Your statement about "Buddhism's strident inner contradictions" is as naive as saying, "Once a man is an American, he must immediately recognize racial equality because the Constitution of the U.S. recognizes racial equality." Like Americans, Buddhists are human beings. Some of them practice the teachings of the religion; others do not. Buddhism forbids killing, stealing, adultery, lying, use of alcoholic liquor. But among those who don't practice the teachings, there are killers, thieves, adulterers, liars, drunkards. It is simply a case of man against religion-just as racial trouble in the U.S. is a case...
Visual Aids. Buddhism's strident inner contradictions were on display last week in a great red, orange and blue tent pitched in the Deer Park of Sarnath, India, where Buddha preached his first sermon 500 years before Christ. There some 150 Buddhist leaders from 25 nations gathered for the Seventh World Fellowship of Buddhists. Begun in 1950 as a kind of informal, monk-to-monk faith forum, this year's meeting often sounded more like a U.N. debate. Russia's Venerable Lama Jambal Dirji Gomboeve?representing 500,000 Soviet Buddhists living mostly in Asiatic Russia?urged the conference to "condemn...
...guards drove them back with rifle butts, and Macapagal admitted a delegation of student leaders to hear out their gripes. The students eventually apologized, and Macapagal shook hands and thanked them for coming but said that next time they should make an appointment in advance. But for all the strident show of anti-Americanism, the student demonstration was a far cry from what it might have been in Indonesia, Cambodia or South Viet Nam. As one near-hysterical Filipino shouted at the height of the melee: "Isn't this democracy in action...