Word: vehemently
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Public Relations Virtue. With characteristic stubbornness, Lindsay refused to capitulate. And with uncharacteristic independence, the state legislature declined to act on the Governor's san itation bill, with the Republican-controlled senate even more vehement in its opposition than the Democratic assembly. The legislative leaders handed the dispute back to Lindsay instead, on condition that he resume bargaining with the union. And at week's end the city and the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association agreed to submit the dispute to binding arbitration, with a Rockefeller aide, Vincent McDonnell, serving as arbitrator...
...hand for just about everyone, De Gaulle naturally succeeded in evoking outrage around the globe. Prime Minister Harold Wilson told a cheering House of Commons that "we have slammed down our application on the table. There it is and there it remains." But in the face of so vehement a second veto, Britain may eventually have to come around to accepting some form of transitional association with the Common Market until De Gaulle is gone. Prime Minister Lester Pearson of Canada angrily denounced the general's "intervention" in Canadian domestic policies as "unacceptable" and "intolerable." Said Pearson: "I believe...
...senior was stopped near the goal line on the conversion, and despite the vehement objections of Kirkland manager Bob Keefe the referee signalled the score...
ARKANSAS' Senator William Fulbright sounding off against L.B.J.? Not by more than a century. It is Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln speaking during the Mexican War. To Lincoln, that war was both "unnecessary and unconstitutional," and his vehement protests were repeated by scores of other prominent critics. Lincoln's argument echoed an attitude that is as old as American history. For Americans have always looked upon war as an evil to be avoided whenever possible. Thus in 1846 there were those who wholly disapproved of the hostilities against Mexico-just as today there are those who wholly disagree with...
...Telefunken electronics plants, its razor-blade factories and other industries are also sending salesmen behind the Iron Curtain. Last month East Germany ordered 1,500 railroad cars and $12.5 million worth of cable from West Berlin; the city in turn bought milk from nearby East German state farms, despite vehement objections from West Germany's powerful farmers' union...