Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation's deep-seated doubts about its most recent foreign venture, evident to almost any visitor to Israel this summer, are only the most obvious reason why Begin has ceased to be an asset to Israel. He's won some territory and eradicated some foes, but his strident rhetoric, his refusal to accept compromise peace plans, and the exhausted state in which his military forays have left the nation are all holding Israel back. With an opposition Labor Party that seems increasingly realistic waiting in the wings. Begin's time seems to have come and gone...
...demands of sexual and racial equality. And this was the way a sympathetic comic artist, reporting from the inside of the analysand wonderland, could transform these demands and dreams into engaging movie narratives. But when Mazursky tries to Say It All about modern life, his voice can turn strident. His valued collaborators, the actors, can lose their charm and become stick figures, animated ideograms. And his characters plunge deep into their obsessions and forget how arrogant their demons sound when they cry out to be released...
Such is the talk and the style around this game now. The owners are no less strident, chewing over the idea of a lockout, professing to be negotiating while mailing the players how-to instructions on quitting a union. In football, owners can still regard the athletes lightly, confident they will never find a truly competitive market for their services. Jack Donlan, executive director of the management
...Phantom jets staged a dawn air attack on Baghdad. One Iranian plane was shot down and the other dropped its bombs on the wrong target, hitting a hotel instead of the conference center where a meeting of nonaligned nations is scheduled to be held in September, against the strident objections of the Iranian government...
...contras. For the first time since the end of the civil war that toppled right-wing Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979, the Sandinistas are being seriously challenged by armed groups of Nicaraguans who originally supported the revolution but who have become disillusioned with the regime's strident Marxism, its disregard for individual rights and its increasing dependence on Cuba and the Soviet Union. The contras say they are fighting to fulfill the revolution's original goals: political pluralism, individual liberties and a mixed economy...