Word: clamoring
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...query from the back of the White House briefing room cut through the clamor: "Do you still enjoy your job?" Presidential Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler, clutching the Styrofoam coffee cup that seems to serve him as a big worry bead, offered an uncharacteristically clear response: "I haven't enjoyed it as much over the past few months as I did in previous years. But I don't mind it. I understand the scope of what you're involved...
Mayor Sam's biggest clamor was a charge that Bradley had accepted a large campaign contribution and loans from two men who have "underworld connections." Bradley said he had returned the money, and he counter attacked by charging that Yorty himself had visited an imprisoned income tax evader and former race-track operator...
...sound theory that the Administration simply cannot be trusted to investigate itself, no matter how independent Attorney General Richardson may prove to be, a bipartisan clamor arose for him to name an outside prosecutor in the Watergate case. Nixon said Richardson was free to do so, and the Attorney General-designate indicated that he will...
There was a rising clamor within the Justice Department itself for Petersen, at least, to remove himself from the case, as Attorney General Richard Kleindienst had done. A Democrat and former FBI clerk, Petersen shifted to the Justice Department in 1951 and rose steadily, especially under the more recent direction of former Attorney General John Mitchell...
Since the bizarre theft occurred only two weeks before France's parliamentary elections, the caper had distinct political overtones. If Pétain's body were to be found before the elections, there would be considerable public clamor to bury it in the national military cemetery at Douaumont near Verdun; in 1971 a public-opinion poll, taken for the Bordeaux newspaper Sud-Ouest, showed that 72% of the French people favored such a move. The "nou-velle affaire Pétain," as the French were calling the caper, revived old political quarrels over the sensitive issue of national...