Word: clamoring
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...emphasized that governments should always try to win the peoples approval and support for their actions, primarily by preparing them to accept strong government policies for freedom. Otherwise, he said, the traditional American distrust of government may be replaced by a clamor for stronger tactics in time of crisis...
...denial climaxed two months of sharply rising clamor against him. The affair had actually begun four years ago, when East Germany's Communist propagandists handed out barrack blueprints that allegedly carried Lübke's signature. Almost no one took the charges very seriously until last January, when Der Stern, West Germany's largest weekly magazine, published the testimony of a U.S. handwriting specialist that the signature was indeed Lübke's. The country's restless students seized on the white-haired old man as a symbol of all that they find wrong with...
...clamor of opposition can hardly be avoided in a democracy. But if the President tries to satisfy everyone, he may end up using power so sparingly that he will satisfy no one. "The danger is," says University of Chicago Political Scientist Morton Kaplan, "that we will now hold back too much out of fear of another Viet...
Eventually, Sarah Lawrence plans to become fully coeducational, although the transition will be slow. One sound, pragmatic reason is that not too many men students can be expected to clamor for the privilege of being among the first recipients of a degree from a women's college-even if they can manage the annual student charges of $3,550, which put Sarah Lawrence among the nation's most expensive...
Certain aspects of the recent clamor for extended parietals have failed to receive consideration in the CRIMSON. It seems frankly and generally considered that parietal hours are designed to provide unrestricted privacy for students. In effect, this means that the university, although it may not actually encourage intercourse between students, does its share in providing the essentials, young men and quiet surroundings. The issue is not the more basic one of whether or not the university allows sexual intimacy, but rather how frequently. It is here that the more degrading implications of the whole parietal system come into question...