Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unlimited patronage is a deserving target for anyone's tirades. The nine-member city council itself--made up of seven lawyers and an undertaker, all of whom are sometimes too busy to work full-time and are always too close to the Mayor--is a body that deserves strident criticism...
...Fishbein, 87, author, newspaper columnist and outspoken editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association for 25 years; in Chicago. Fishbein, TIME'S first medical consultant, became editor of the Journal in 1924. He built it into an authoritative source of information for doctors, but his increasingly strident defense of the medical status quo led to his ousting...
...theme song in the long and strident campaign had been a snappy rendition of Coney Island Baby, calling to mind his debonair manner and cherubic smile. But on the day after the votes were counted, his top aide said: "We're going to change to With a Little Bit of Luck." As it turned out, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 49, needed all the luck of the Irish last week to defeat Congresswoman Bella Abzug, 56, by 1% of the total vote to win a five-candidate contest for the Democratic senatorial nomination in New York State...
...ugly confrontations of the '50s and '60s, the bombings and Klan revivals, the school riots and statehouse harangues seem as remote as the Dred Scott decision. It is up North, in staid Boston, that the races clash and skirmish. Little Rock, Ark., scene of former Governor Orval Faubus' strident segregationist harangues, has thoroughly integrated its schools...
...Strident Demands. Interference was a widespread preoccupation at the conference, however. Laos and Viet Nam excoriated Indonesia for its recently ratified military acquisition of East Timor (TIME, June 14). An increasingly aggressive North Korea issued strident demands that the U.S. withdraw its defense forces from South Korea. Libya's Gaddafi threatened to proclaim a "balance sheet" of member countries that, in his view, "leaned toward imperialism." Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, usually a quiet-spoken man, gave a shouting, lectern-thumping performance that amounted to a virtual declaration of war against Rhodesia and South Africa. "Assistance is urgently required...