Word: strident
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during the last 13 years, probably come closest to agreeing when they talk about the procedures of the Cambridge Rent Control Board, a quasi-judicial agency which administers many of the city's housing codes, including the controversial restraints on landlords that Sullivan supports and Walsh opposes in equally strident tones. Sullivan calls some of the board's methods "fundamentally unfair," and Walsh labels the rent board a "kangaroo court...
...Texas Democratic primary-with 200 ballots that materialized in the week following the election. Though Dugger struggles to be matter of fact about Johnson's rise, outrage keeps seeping through. He cannot forgive L.B.J. for abandoning his early New Deal progressivism, turning against organized labor and becoming a strident antiCommunist...
...this small but increasingly strident group, a victory for Hanoi was not regrettable but morally desirable. Our humiliation was seen as an object lesson in the immorality of America's postwar leadership and as a convenient tool to demoralize the entire U.S. Establishment-business, labor, academe, the media, Congress-which was perceived as an obstacle to the forward march of history...
...conviction and tactical expediency merged; he both believed in what he was doing and did what served his purposes. The speech on Communism and Zionism, however bizarre it sounded to Westerners, was deeply felt. At the same time it reflected precisely the tactical necessities of the kingdom. The strident anti-Communism helped reassure America and established a claim to protection against outside threats (which were all, in fact, backed by the Soviet Union). The virulent anti-Zionism reassured radicals and the P.L.O. and reduced their incentive to undermine the monarchy...
Indeed, in Washington the most extreme critics of the Administration's policy are likening the growing U.S. role in El Salvador to the early stages of American involvement in Viet Nam (see ESSAY). Other, less strident critics, such as Democratic Senators Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts, last week helped to introduce a joint congressional resolution urging the U.S. to promote a negotiated settlement between the government and its leftist opponents. Three delegations of congressional Democrats flew to El Salvador over the weekend to take a closer look at local conditions. Even as the Congressmen began...