Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spikers, looking to blank the hosts again, were faced with a more inspired Springfield team than they had seen earlier. "They had a very vocal crowd," explained senior Captain Brad Martin, who added that the game marked the "first time they really came out to beat...
...favor another course. First, on a practical level, banning the book and stripping Staeglich of his degree could provoke and unintended response. The neo-Nazis may try to make Staeglich a martyr, calling him the victim of a conspiracy. A silenced Staeglich may win more Nazi sympathizers than a vocal one. Perhaps a more pragmatic way to combat the propaganda would be pointedly to refute its premise and its "evidence...
Manley demonstrated equal ambition in his foreign policy. Jamaica chaired the Non-Aligned Movement during this period and was among the most vocal in demanding the implementation of the New Economic Order and improvement of North-South relations. Manley to this day stands by his country's decision to back Cuban involvement in Angola; he argues that Castro, in offering Angola his support, was responding to requests from the legitimate Neto government trying to ward CIA destabilization efforts...
...when President Reagan fired Joy Simonson, the administrator of the federal programs mandated by the Women's Education Equity (WEE) Act, and replaced her with one of Phyllis Schlafly's assistants from the Eagle Forum. Feminists, including Barney Frank, publicly expressed outrage, but Heckler, who had been a very vocal supporter of the WEE Act, greeted Reagan's dicy move with a roaring silence...
Ronald Reagan, who takes pride in his efforts to "get Government off the backs of the people," has been much less vocal about another campaign he has been waging: to get people off the back of Uncle Sam by vastly expanding the amount of information about the Government that cannot be made public...