Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both Arab governments at the Rabat summit and by the General Assembly of the United Nations, where Yasser Arafat's call for Israel's dismantlement was greeted with a standing ovation. Terrorist incursions into Israel have taken the lives of 57 people so far this year, and despite stringent security measures and brutal retaliatory raids into Lebanon, the attacks have not been thwarted...
...meantime, the Vatican and the U.S. hierarchy, while upholding traditional doctrine, have taken steps to relax the stringent rules on annulment, thereby creating easier ways out of broken marriages. U.S. bishops recently won from Rome an extended approval of simpler annulment procedures, which, among other things, no longer demand that a favorable decision by one matrimonial court always be confirmed by a second court. Moreover, more and more diocesan marriage tribunals recognize "psychic incapacity" in either partner as a fatal defect in the original marriage contract-an interpretation that has led to a sharp rise in the number of annulments...
...tente may be lost in the nightmarish shuffle of an accelerated arms race. Well aware that peripheral agreements on scientific collaboration and cultural exchange cannot compensate for failure to achieve this central goal, Kissinger went into the talks with a variety of specific suggestions for more lasting and stringent controls on the whole range of strategic arms. His proposals include several possible formulas for establishing "essential equivalence" between American and Soviet stockpiles-an issue that has kept SALT II negotiations deadlocked for the past two years...
...mighty, a new impatience with politics as usual, a new eagerness to challenge practices that were once bunked at. This demand for higher standards can have practical benefits. Last week, for instance, President Ford signed a long overdue campaign-financing reform bill. The voters of California have approved a stringent anticorruption measure. But there is also a tendency to condemn prematurely and to burn today's leaders with the laser of hindsight. It is a particularly painful period both for public leaders and for a people in need of leaders who merit confidence...
...They'd both have to meet the same standards, though. They could be lumped together, and if the juxtaposition sounded funny--Ives wrote a great piano trio with a second movement labeled TSIAJ, for "The Scherzo is a Joke"--the joke was on neither the popular tunes nor the stringent lyricism, but on the pedants who'd have liked to keep them separate. When Ives was joking, his music could be something like a Roy Lichtenstein painting of a comic book frame, mocking people's belief that 'art' should be separate from 'life,' off somewhere in a museum; and when...