Word: vehemently
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...always find it sad when seemingly intelligent people find themselves hopelessly lost in the thickets of a complex problem. This seems to be where George Bisharat has left himself after his thoroughly confused letter (3 17 83) which attempted to respond to the often overly vehement, but generally sensible critiques of his misguided editorial...
Israel's supporters were equally vehement, if less numerous. Said one: "It is always Israel and the Jewish people whom you blame, and whom you hold to a double standard." Concurred another: "As a chronicler of the 20th century, TIME has betrayed Israel with its innuendoes and half-truths...
This sort of vehement class consciousness is only one of the likely manifestations of designer underwear's invasion of our society. We can also expect to see the rites of courtship and seduction radically altered, as the mamba dancers of sex and class twine in ever more perverse ways. Women will use the new class markers to find themselves suitable mates and lovers. For instance, in "fast" cultural sub-groups we might expect to find men sidling up to women at bars and, instead of buying them drinks and flashing large billfolds, performing quick pirouettes followed by a hiking...
...visited Mary Baldwin College, a women's school, where "the students were telephoning their fathers on nearby Air Force and Army bases, asking if they should go home." These undergraduates feared that their particular country would be targeted by the Soviets because Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, a vehement anti-communist spokesman, had once attended an adjacent military academy, Riesman explains...
...that faltered only near the end. "We face great dangers now," he admitted. Down-playing his own responsibility, he argued that the economic troubles had been triggered by an unforeseen decline in world petroleum demand, which cut deeply into Mexico's revenues from oil exports. Then, in a vehement attack on Mexico's financial establishment, the President charged that the country's problems had been intensified by businesses and speculators who had invested their money outside the country. Said he: "A group of Mexicans, supported by the private banks, have taken more money out of Mexico...