Word: strident
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both men had a point, but Secretary of State Alexander Haig felt it would be disastrous to "pull the plug on a promise that NATO made to itself." The new Administration was already suspect in Western Europe for its strident rhetoric toward the U.S.S.R. Cancellation of the December 1979 decision might be taken as proof of Reagan's antipathy to arms control and of his insensitivity to America's allies...
...visit to Washington, his first since becoming Israeli Prime Minister two months ago. He and Reagan will undoubtedly concentrate on the problems of Lebanon: how to bolster the fragile Gemayel government, how to bring about a withdrawal of foreign forces, how to deal with the tough and strident Damascus government of the ailing Assad. They will talk about "strategic cooperation" between longtime allies and try to overcome some of the bitterness engendered by the Israeli war in Lebanon. But they will obviously not solve all the outstanding issues between two nations whose needs are sometimes at variance. For this reason...
...preserve the paper's combative Republicanism and independence. Although Newhouse bargained away the building and passes to the Post-Dispatch in 1959 and began to pool profits with his ri val two years later, he and his heirs have endorsed local editorial control, and the paper's strident voice has been retained: cartoons depict Communist leaders with hands dripping blood; editorials have termed U.S. District Judge William Hungate, who ordered citywide school desegregation, "Attila the Hungate...
...grain-sales agreement with Moscow, and no delay in arms-control talks. Reagan told his speechwriters he wanted no broad-scale attack on the Soviet Union but rather a speech tightly focused on the airliner atrocity. Nonetheless, of the two drafts on his desk Monday morning, one was too strident and the other too general to please the President. Reagan spent nearly all of Labor Day rewriting...
...hours and punctilious habits, but admires, and often exemplifies, a debonair style. He savors jokes, but does not tell them. And even though he rarely raises his voice, he has always been fired by passionate convictions. As Menachem Begin's successor, Yitzhak Shamir, 67, is at once less strident and more uncompromising than his former boss. Instead of denouncing or defending Begin's policies, the small (5 ft. 4 in.) man with deep-set eyes and a shock of gray-black hair may simply take to investing them with his distinct brand of quiet, guarded authority...