Word: clamor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clamor to bring the boys home grew louder & louder. Millions complained that demobilization was a scandal...
...Boats, No Votes." Although they were doing their best, the Army and Navy knew that the clamor could not be calmed. Some servicemen overseas were almost psychopathic in their anxiety to get home. Without themselves aboard, the departure of any ship for home seemed out of order. In the Pacific, their resentment found form in a slogan which was stamped on all U.S.-bound mail: "No Boats, No Votes...
Russia's bargaining position had been improved by an unexpectedly weak U.S. policy. When Washington, yielding to pressure, let it be known recently that U.S. forces would be "gradually withdrawn" from China, American officers and men in the theater lost interest in their jobs, joined the clamor to pull out and leave China to civil...
...clamor for more of the good things of life was strong; even Party organizers were grousing. Kalinin chided them: "You were grumbling here that there is not enough consumers' goods. Of course, there isn't and there cannot be enough...
This time, Navymen wet their fingers and gazed anxiously aloft. The clamor for immediate demobilization and the complaints of reserves whistled through the rigging. The drive to merge the services (see below) might blow either fair or foul. The Navy no longer had such a great and loving friend in the White House as a Roosevelt (T. or F.D.). Onetime Artilleryman Harry Truman went out of his way last week to give the men in blue and gold the back of his hand. Praising General of the Army George Marshall the President wisecracked: "He [Marshall] succeeded in getting the Navy...