Word: clamor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sudden and complete Allied victory in Tunisia set up a clamor of urgency over all of Europe. Once again it had been proved that the German Wehrmacht was not invincible. To peasants and patriots in occupied countries the certainty of eventual Allied victory was a staff to lean upon until guns could be used again. Satellite states squirmed. In Germany, the "master race" looked furtively over its shoulder...
...time, he succeeded so well that Stalin once called him the only Polish leader with whom the Kremlin could deal. But pressure inside & outside his Government has confounded him. Emigrés in London for months have printed anti-Russian, anti-Semitic and pro-fascist newspapers. The chauvinists' clamor, and that of an anti-Sikorski Polish press in the U.S., impelled Sikorski last Feb. 25 to demand a showdown with Stalin on the return of Poland's eastern provinces. From then on, relations between the two Governments have gone from bad to debacle...
...week had a good, squabblesome book to squabble over. Its publication was celebrated by a gay party at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery. Surrounded by highly explosive canvases, Duke Ellington and Kansas City's boogie-woogie specialist Pete Johnson smote the piano while esthetic arguments added to the clamor. The book: Samuel M. Kootz's New Frontiers in American Painting (Hastings House...
...Suit In the eight months since the Government filed its anti-trust suit against Associated Press (TIME, Sept. 7), the clamor of A.P.'s defense has been incessant and loud. Fortnight ago came the first clear non-A.P. voice. Up rose 57-year-old Zechariah Chafee Jr., ruddy Harvard law professor and one of the nation's great authorities on free speech. His statement came near not being published at all. Behind this controversy was a history important to all newspaper-reading citizens. The A. P. suit was filed Aug. 28, 1942, shortly after pro-New Deal...
...keynote of President Avila Camacho's speech when he took office in 1940: "Each new epoch demands a rebirth of ideas. The clamor of the entire republic now demands the national consolidation of our social conquests. It demands an era of construction, of abundant life, of economic expansion...