Word: strident
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Secretary Lord] Carrington. But he couldn't have done it without her backing." Not coincidentally, Thatcher's worst performance came when Carrington, preoccupied with Rhodesia, was away from her side. At the European Community's summit in Dublin last November, she alienated her Continental colleagues with strident demands for a full rebate of "my money," meaning the $2.5 billion that Britain contributes to the Community's budget...
...much the manner as the margin of last week's victories in the Illinois primary that made the winners look so invincible. Kennedy and his clan had spent more than 100 days collectively in Illinois. The Senator, whose campaigning had taken on a more natural, less strident style in the face of adversity, enjoyed some of the same shoving, shouting adulation that his brothers had inspired as he pushed eagerly into crowds in Chicago. Yet there were some boos...
PRESIDENT BOK defended his nomination of Arnold C. Harberger to head the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) last month at Lowell House on the pinnacles of academic freedom. The strident voices of politicized students who objected to Harberger's ties with the oppressive Pinochet government in Chile can not sway him, he argued; that would lower academic appointments from their eminence and subject them to the shifting tides of the external political environment. Attacks on Harberger today could then turn into attacks on left-wing appointments if the national mood suddenly shifted to the far right...
When Reagan lost narrowly to George Bush in Iowa, Sears' adversaries struck. His "imperial strategy," they complained, which had kept Reagan out of the fray, cost him the victory in the caucus. In advising Reagan to be less strident, Sears had made him more monotonous. Says Nofziger: "Reagan always was a slow learner. He just had to be hit by a two-by-four one more time. He woke up to the fact that he was not running his own campaign. He realized that Sears is cocky, pompous and arrogant...
...CLATTERING OF RIFLES has filled every forum of this campaign season like the overture to a blood-and-thunder opera, full of strident and hackneyed themes, but nonetheless ominous. Candidates speak glibly of the nation's military needs, haggle in public advertisements over who would hand the Pentagon the most money, and discuss "limited nuclear war" as casually as the latest poll. Proposals to lower unemployment or slow inflation litter the floors of New Hampshire auditoriums, mowed down by exorbitantly priced arsenals of MX missiles, B-1 bombers and "rapid deployment forces...