Word: strident
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Once a strident hardliner, Iraq tried to be a middleman in the power struggle between extremists and self-professed moderates. Its oil minister, Tayeh Abdul-Karim, suggested that a relatively modest floor price be established, but that it increase automatically every three months in line with world inflation and the economic growth of Western nations, a proposal that won only limited support...
...profited from it. Once he seemed bent on expelling all foreign correspondents, but now more than 200 of them are "persona grata" in a land where American diplomats are not. Journalists walk the streets of Tehran encountering little hostility, despite Iran radio's constant and strident anti-American propaganda. In their on-the-air questioning of the student militants, however, they too seem inhibited by the fear of jeopardizing the hostages. When Khomeini gives televised interviews, he chooses which submitted questions he will deign to answer and allows no follow-ups. His advisers are smart enough about American public...
...women who outlive their husbands. She can elicit a hearty chuckle by recounting how she lavished "time, money, attention and great expectations on four of the only all-male zucchini plants to exist in the memory of my county Agricultural Extension Service." Her feminism is sharp but not strident. When the Supreme Court limited state-financed abortions, she imagined Justice Lewis Powell "barefoot and pregnant" and offered him "a slightly salted wafer to appease his morning sickness...
...singers of the past. Still, there is a basic flaw in The Rose's design that makes the film hard to take seriously. While Streisand and Ross were reasonably plausible stand-ins for Fanny Brice and Billie Holiday, Midler is not credible as a bluesy rock belter. Her strident Broadway voice and campy mannerisms have more in common with Sophie Tucker, Judy Garland or even Brice than they do with a heroine who dresses, talks and self-destructs in the style of Joplin...
...Washington was being careful not to respond with a hard-sell counteroffensive of its own. Rather, at the December NATO meeting the allies also plan to introduce an arms-control proposal of their own for limiting medium-range weapons. The judgment of the State Department is to watch the strident Soviet campaign, at least for the time being. Whatever the problems the NATO allies may have with their divided or left-leaning parliaments, the prevailing West European attitude toward the Soviets is believed to have hardened in the past two years. ''So far the Europeans have reacted pretty...