Word: clamor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much of the combing-out job is hardheaded, old (68) Major General Lorenzo Dow Gasser, veteran of the Spanish war. Gasser, serving in the Office of Civilian Defense in the early, jittery days of the war, met the civilian clamor for gas masks, fire-fighting apparatus, etc. with a hardboiled: "The military comes first. The civilians will have to get along as best they can." Over a year and a half ago, General Gasser charged into the Army's combing-out job, leading 14 "personnel audit" teams...
...Year's calendar: a "tea for three" meeting with Messrs. Churchill and Stalin. The Washington word was that the Big Three would get together soon after Mr. Roosevelt's Term IV inauguration on Jan. 20. It would not be too soon. During the past fortnight, a clamor of criticism against U.S. diplomacy has swelled into an outraged chorus. Its theme: the U.S. has been following a wavering diplomatic course with its allies, now burning its fingers with well-meant advice, now dusting its hands of Europe's problems...
...fate of Rome haunts a modern world that has been unable to solve its own social problems, either domestic or international, and Durant makes the most of hundreds of parallels. Rome, like the U.S.A., discovered the secret of check-&-balance republican government, yet forgot its secret when the clamor of pressure groups broke down the old tradition of limited terms of office. A Cincinnatus, called from his plow to save the State, returned to his farm as soon as the crisis was over. But when Sulla and Julius Caesar violated the precedent, the Republic sank back into the monarchy from...
Although the carriers are baby flattops (CVEs) and not big, slick beauties of the Essex class, the Navy's announcement quieted the Marine air arm's long clamor for a share in carrier-based flying. Before the war a few Marine outfits had been carrier-based, but by Pearl Harbor they were all flying from land airdromes; and that was where the Navy left them...
...Washington's Navy Building, the marines' clamor for carriers grew. The chorus leader: stubby, black-browed Major General Louis E. Woods, director of aviation. His best refrain: Marine airmen were better qualified to blast the way for their shipmates than flyers of any other service...