Word: shrillest
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...noise of battle was shrillest in Peking itself, and the Chinese mood was not improved by a new $15 million Russian contract with New Delhi for oil-drilling equipment, or Moscow's promise to deliver MIG fighters to embattled India. In an outburst at "modern revisionism." meaning the Khrushchev line, Peking's People's Daily vilified the Kremlin's Cuban policy as "sinister and venomous, disgraceful." and seeking "to befuddle the Cuban people and mentally disarm them." The paper urged a "headon" confrontation with the U.S. instead of a "barter" of Communist principles. Next...