Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shrunk five inches since doctors 18 months ago diagnosed his disease as multiple myeloma. Although hunched and incessantly hammered by pain, he is dictating a book on the black man's problems in America to his secretary at his town house in Southwest Washington. His words may be strident, but his views are not hysterically militant. "I call racism a rationalization for economic exploitation," he told Hathaway. "It's now become a part of our nervous system, a part of our institutions. But I think it goes further than the fact that I'm a black...
Probably the reason for McGovern's failure to reach the American people is the nature of his rhetoric. McGovern's attacks on the Nixon Administration are so brutal and strident that it is difficult for anyone who is uncommitted to hear him and come away feeling that McGovern has reasoned positions. Rather people come away from rallies amazed at how vicious McGovern has been in his attacks on the President...
...want to ask you," said the Democratic candidate, "do you feel safer after four years of Richard Nixon? Mr. Nixon and his Administration are [trying to] mask a record of astounding failure in the field of crime behind a veil of law-and-order rhetoric, which grows more strident as the muggings and murders and rapes in our cities continue to rise...
...City, Mo., gave him his warmest receptions of the campaign, McGoyern flew on to Eagleton's home town of St. Louis, where he joined his former running mate and delivered a feeling apologia. "If there were mistakes," he said, "they were honest mistakes of the heart." Dropping his strident tones, McGovern spoke eloquently of his vision of the presidency and the nation, of his conception of "the moral leadership worthy of a great people...
...that voveur's eye view of Altamont, double bills with the stomach churning Permance Friday considerably improves the schedule, with Peter Yale's entertaining Bullitt, and Arthur Penn's archetypal American love story. Bonnir and Clyde Sunday and Monday make for a return to drek, as the Perrys's strident Diars of a Mad Housewife plays with polarishes slick and soulless Rosemary's Baby Call...