Word: vehement
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...invade any other country in the foreseeable future." Senator Albert Gore accused Nixon of informing leaders of veterans' and retired officers' groups about his Cambodian plans two days before Congress and the nation were told on April 30. The White House denied it. Other, less vehement critics of the war were also on the attack. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said that the U.S. was in danger of being dragged into Saigon's territorial ambitions "in Laos, Cambodia and God knows where else...
...CLEAR by now that President Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia has angered many of those who would otherwise have been more tolerant of the Administration's "Vietnamization" policy, and has brought them to a more vehement stand against American military presence in Southeast Asia. Under these circumstances, a university-wide strike would not be without merit in consolidating opposition to the war and forcing Nixon to re-assess his flagrant ill-explored action...
...Thursday). Jebbie is left weeping and asking "Why?" If the rats are simply anthropomorphic rats, I feel sorry for the baby. If they represent the rich businessmen and hookers who are all killing Harlem, then I feel sorry for the play because it never capitalized on these bitter, vehement themes and chose to remain with some TV vintage humor. Finally, the play lost its sense of proportion since the final result was the sheer shock of seeing this big baby and nothing else, not even "relevance...
...secret police planted others with publishers in an attempt to manufacture a criminal case against Solzhenitsyn under the Soviet law that forbids an author to disseminate "anti-Soviet literature." Since 1968, Cancer Ward and other works forbidden in Russia have become bestsellers in the West despite Solzhenitsyn's vehement public protests against their publication...
Instead of A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, people sing "One mighty Family, A single noble race,/Sending its sons and daughters/Bravely into Space ..." The common obscenity is "fight," as in "fight you" or "you brother-fighter." On less vehement occasions the universal expression is "Christ, Marx, Wood and Wei," the four deities of the drugged society. Christ and Marx, O.K. Wei is a mischief-making Oriental seer who appears in the book. But who's Wood? The author has hinted that he made Wood up. But could it possibly be Speed-Reading Guru Evelyn Wood, who has, after...