Word: strident
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most dangerous of all is the way the president's speech has been shunted aside as hollow rhetoric. If all goes well for the Administration, it will gather the enthusiastic support of conservative religious groups. And while increasingly strident, confrontationist posturing will bring the world closer to nuclear war, millions of people in the countries south of the U.S. will suffer under military rule, with body counts growing every day. All of which should be good for a few more rousing strains of "Onward, Christian Soldiers" at next year's convention of the National Association of Evangelicals...
...high strung as Kahan is low key, Barak (whose name means lightning in Hebrew) was the panel's conscience, its most strident and at times indignant voice. An international authority on commercial law, Barak offers a dazzling resume. He was, at 32, Israel's youngest full professor, at 38 its youngest Attorney General, and at 42 one of its youngest Supreme Court Justices. He is also, as the Jerusalem Post puts it, "a pillar of probity," a respected champion of individual rights, indifferent to rank and impervious to reputation. As Attorney General, in 1977 he sent to prison...
...ruminations on U.S. Soviet relationships in the chapter on Khruschev and Brezhnev, for example, are moderate if self-congratulatory in their defense of detente. Nixon only predictably lambasts the "superdoves" but also lashes out at the "superhawks," in a not-too-subtle Jab at the strident Reagan approach to dealing with the Soviets. A "hard-headed detente" is the best strategy the U.S. could adopt in this nuclear age, he creditably argues When Nixon sets aside ideology and self-interest partially (he can never do it fully), he does prove insightful and at times persuasive. Such glimpses...
...since become thought of as a fine actress. Her book on physical exercise is a bestseller, and she has a chain of body-fitness shops. She hasn't changed all that much; opinion has. In most American families, she is now regarded as the niece with strident and unpopular opinions that are accepted as part...
Nevertheless the Kremlin has every intention, if possible, of neutralizing Western Europe and driving the American military presence from the Continent. Kennan is too sanguine about the extent to which Soviet power has been-and might be again-an effective instrument of intimidation. But he is quite right that strident, bellicose countermeasures have played into the hands of the Soviet propaganda and diplomatic campaign to split NATO...