Word: strident
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Emotions continued to rise on both sides of the Pacific last week. Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz was strident. Said he: "We need to retaliate against Japan. They deserve it." One step suggested by a growing number of politicians: a surcharge on Japanese imports that could raise prices of everything from Toyota cars to Toshiba calculators...
Reagan is now running for his place in the history books. Over the past year he has markedly softened his once strident rhetoric toward the Soviets; Reagan wants to be remembered as the President who achieved a verifiable agreement reducing nuclear weapons. Domestically, the deficit Reagan ignored during the campaign is continuing to swell. To shrink it, Reagan is proposing cuts in Government spending even more drastic than those he achieved in 1981, while remaining adamant that the military gets virtually everything it feels it needs. He will require help on Capitol Hill if he is to win those budget...
These broadsides are often as strident as a traffic jam at the end of the world. But the message is countered by the displays of old automobiles built at a time when progress was desirable, not threatening. There is, after all, nothing inherently wrong with mobility, and for many Americans, the freedom granted by the car has been an unwritten codicil of the Declaration of Independence. The naive but still appealing designs of the futurists, the lines of the classic cars, retain the power to move an audience. They still raise hopes that manufacturers and city planners can yet produce...
...disproportionate amount of forgettable words at Moscone Center last month came not from politicians but from anchormen and their in-house pundits, whose views were already wearily familiar. (Among anchormen only David Brinkley with his wry sanity brought any verbal distinction.) Politicians can be corny, boring or strident, but sometimes wholehearted, amusing or touching. They are an authentic, unpredictable slice of American life. Much of the time the networks preferred to substitute a filter of detached, bloodless and often disdainful commentary by their own people...
While available in plain vanilla, Tofutti best masks the aftertaste of its novel ingredient with strident flavors such as banana-pecan and forest maple. In Texas, the bestseller is made by swirling peanut butter and chocolate flavors together into something that tastes like a Reese's Cup. Aficionados swear Tofutti is better than ice cream. Says one: "If you eat it too fast, you even get the headache...