Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self-defense forces stressed the potential "Soviet threat" to Japan's main northern island of Hokkaido. But Premier Masayoshi Ohira, who was busy with the final stage of Japan's election campaign, tried to play down the controversy. Among other things, he feared that a strident debate over the islands would further poison Soviet-Japanese relations, already damaged by Tokyo's friendship treaty with China last year. Accordingly, his Foreign Minister, Sunao Sonoda, dovishly cautioned against "overreaction," sounding very much like U.S. officials on the Cuban issue...
...friends since their student days at the National University, they had little in common. Echeverria was a politician to his ringer tips, and something of a political demagogue. Lopez Portillo was an unknown technocrat and law professor who had never run for public office. The outgoing President was almost strident in his efforts to establish Mexico as a leader of the Third World. His successor appeared to be a dedicated academic, most comfortable when studying archaeology or writing a novelette (Quetzalcoatl) about Mexican history...
...Iranian press. Among other things, the law would forbid "close associates of the Pahlavi regime" from owning or editing newspapers in Iran. It would also make it a crime to "insult" religious leaders or top government officials in print. The proposed measure has been held up because of strident criticism by Iranian journalists. Said an editor of the Persian-language daily Kayhan: "This potato is hotter than anybody thought...
Stylistically, Noyce often imitates (with flattery, not parody) the films of the forties and fifties. Cutting and panning techniques follow content--sometimes the strident sweeps of the newsreels, sometimes the sentimental gaze of Capra or Hawks. A scene in the bar of a flashy Melbourne hotel harks back to Casablanca, for example. Len Maguire, with his new girl Amy on his arm, meets his brother Frank (Amy's old flame) after years of separation. Frank's brash charm, his pert, silly American secretary, conversation laced with double entendres and meaningful glances, and even a black piano player crooning "Smoke Gets...
...effort to cut down on gasoline consumption, as well as traffic accidents, European governments are trying anew to enforce the speed limits imposed on the Continent's highways in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis. The response of motorists has been, well, wrathful. In West Germany, strident opposition greeted a modest proposal to place an 81-m.p.h. (130 km) limit on the currently unrestricted superhighways. In Italy, tempestuous public resistance to restrictions ended in a historic compromise involving an 87-m.p.h. limit on autostradas for Maseratis and other high-powered cars, with less powerful vehicles subject...