Word: clamor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outshouted all other jingoists in demands for aggression, became known as "Father of Japan's Fascism." Vain and headstrong, he refused offers of high Government posts (except for a spell as a vice minister); his goal was to rule the Government through his party, through threats, through the clamor of the rabble. Though Cabinets feared and hated him, he never dominated any of them. But as Japan's best-known fascist, he helped to mold the public mind, supplied the Army with totalitarian catchwords, had much to do with plunging Japan into...
...hasn't hankered at one time or another for the "big office" complex?. The clamor of telephones and typewriters, the pulse beat of a full-fledged newspaper, are not always restricted to climax scenes in the movies. Harvard's only breakfast table paper stands ready to share some of its excitement Tuesday night...
Last week the Memphis Commercial Appeal cracked the quiet, printed the story of the attack and of the sentencing of six Negro soldiers at nearby Camp McCain. The sentences (10 to 15 years at hard labor) did not halt local clamor for local justice. Neither did the news that seven more soldiers were being held for court-martial...
...From the bomb-shambles that once was Hamburg, civilian jitters spreading through the Reich-making it necessary to evacuate Berlin, sending a million homeless Germans shuffling down roads to nowhere, rousing scared German workers to strike, stirring imported foreign labor to clamor for repatriation...
...Lesson taught by the second campaign in Burma documented Winston Churchill's arguments (see p. 29) against the clamor in the U.S. for quick action in the Far East. The major effort to reconquer Burma will have to be made by sea, with landings on the western and southern coast. And between Allied India and that coast is a Japanese fleet in being, which, unless checkmated, could murder landing troops...