Word: clamorers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Controls. The difficulties the automakers are having with Government safety and pollution regulations are a prime consequence of that flaw. For years the auto companies did not take seriously enough the rising clamor for greater car safety and less polluting engines. As a result, Government moved in and imposed stiffer standards than might have been necessary if the companies had acted voluntarily...
...intense is antijunta sentiment that demonstrations calling for execution of "the six" are now almost a daily occurrence. But however shrill the public clamor may become, the Caramanlis government is determined to resist anything resembling a Jacobean bloodletting. Says Press Minister Panayiotis Lambrias: "Perhaps it is a natural phenomenon. We saw it in France after the second world war. We saw it in Germany . . . But we have to respect the rules of democracy. When there are arrests, they must be legal." Lambrias has ample reason to understand the appeal as well as the danger of wholesale reprisals. A former journalist...
...films lies in its use as primary source material. A film like The Longest Day is only vaguely interesting for what it tells us about military maneuvers during the D-Day invasion. However, if one watched the film to figure out what made an American audience, one generation later, clamor to see such a long, detailed re-enactment of a World War II operation, the film becomes a much more interesting social document. It teaches us about...
...prospect of that match in any location was enough to make promoters clamor. Only one seemed to have the inside track: Robert Arum, Ali's lawyer and the president of Top Rank, Inc., a closed-circuit TV company that has always telecast Ali's fights. To Arum's astonishment, he was quietly outmaneuvered by Don King. Since being paroled from prison in 1971, King had put together a small stable of fighters. He had also had a run-in with Arum over TV rights in Ohio for the second Ali-Frazier fight...
Simple Dignity. The shouting and the hysteria did not stop for years there after, but Lindbergh managed to retain his simple dignity. "He stood forth amidst clamor and crowds," said...