Word: vehementer
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...intellectual Javits and the Harvard-educated Holtzman. The man who once stood next to Howard Jarvis at a rally and promised to lead the-fight for a Proposition 13 in Nassau County is now promising to lead the Senate fight for Reagan's tax-slashing policies. A vehement opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion, D'Amato, it seems, would prefer to keep women in the kitchen: he even sent his mother to Buffalo supermarkets with recipes for "the forgotten middle class...
...senatorial strength. Explains Moyers, a future presidential assistant: "If a Democrat got the nomination and won the election, then that Democrat was going to be Mr. Democrat in the nation. Not Lyndon Johnson . . . On the other hand, if Nixon were President-partisan, narrow, an infighter, a vehement man, not given to collaboration . . . Johnson knew that his relationship with the White House was over...
...Coalition for Direct Action at Seabrook ("C-Dass" as the cognoscenti call it) is vehement about shutting the plant down through direct action--by cutting down the fence, getting inside, and occupying the construction site so work will have to cease. One of the most prepared groups in the effort, the cryptically-named Fanshen Armadilloes, occupies center stage for a time Saturday afternoon. Earlier that morning, while photographers clicked wildly, the Fanshen crew practiced cutting fences while pretend policemen battered their shields with branches. Now it's the real thing--in a drainage ditch next to the main gate, while...
...dramatize their resentment against the Soviet invaders. Shouting anti-Soviet epithets and antigovernment jeers, the merchants repeatedly defied attempts by Afghan police to force them to reopen their shops. When thousands of other citizens poured into the city center to support the merchants, they launched a series of vehement protest marches. Green Islamic banners were unfurled as marchers snaked through the shuttered streets with cries of "God is Great!" and "Death to the Soviets...
...Roth bill--which called for a sharp and potentially dangerous cut in personal taxes--and his support throughout the 60s for the Vietnam War as dampers on his appeal. But Anderson supporters are attracted by this man who does not hesitate to admit his mistakes or his frustrations. His vehement opposition to the proposed MX missile, the B-1 bomber and the draft, and his equally vocal support of SALT II and a carefully planned foreign policy have gained him more than a few recruits...