Word: strident
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occasionally alternates the strident alliteration with straight prose phrases, which burden the poems with a weighty self-conscious tone: "Eyes nosing into everything/with paddy paws I lounge among the leaves/I have forgotten how a human grieves...
Faltering Miracle. Few observers anywhere expect dramatic changes in French foreign policy, even if a non-Gaullist is elected. (French domestic policy is another matter entirely, especially if a leftist candidate wins.) Despite the resurgence of strident Gaullist rhetoric in recent months, Georges Pompidou was first and foremost a realist. At home the tragedy of his presidency was that he had to work almost in stealth on developing the "modern" France that he envisioned, lest he upset the orthodox Gaullist constituency to which he was chained. It was a project that he could not hope to finish. Even...
...occupation (there are 700,000 on the West Bank of the Jordan and close to 400,000 in the Gaza Strip, plus perhaps 1 million more inside and outside refugee camps in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan) has been the most intractable of the Middle East disputes. Syria has given strident sympathy to the "liberation" groups that would dismantle Israel as a Jewish state and establish a binational, secular Palestine, and Syria has seldom condemned terrorist actions. Asks Assad: "How could we persuade the dispossessed people they should be content to keep silence and not disturb the world...
Indeed, only hours before the tape report was made public, Vice President Gerald Ford had launched that line in a strident, almost Agnewesque speech to the American Farm Bureau Federation in Atlantic City. He lashed out at "a few extreme partisans" who were determined to "crush the President and his philosophy" so they could "dominate the Congress, and through it, the nation." It was an ill-considered and surprising turnabout for Ford. Until then he had seemed fully aware of his delicate role as a possible successor who would be called upon to play a healing and conciliating role...
...Your Essay makes a very convincing case that corruption has always been with us. What it fails to explain is the strident volume of press reports on the subject after the 1972 election. It is almost as though this were the first time that corruption was called to the attention of the press...