Word: clamoring
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...shortages of workers and materials, and a steadily increasing scarcity of money, the President had for months refrained from taking any major action in the hope that inflation would somehow stay within bounds-at least until the November elections. But inflation would not be held back, and a rising clamor for presidential initiative from both parties convinced Johnson that White House action could no longer be held back either. Last week, acknowledging that the U.S. was in the grip of an "accelerated boom that could be cooled off," he requested emergency action from Congress to do just that...
Push & Pull. They were always in the street. When Sukarno, ignoring the rising national clamor to ban the P.K.I., appointed several Communist sympathizers to his Cabinet in February, the students swarmed through Djakarta, rioting, slashing car tires, and even storming Sukarno's Merdeka Palace. A special target of their ire: wily Foreign Minister Subandrio, who was widely believed to be implicated in the Communist coup...
...from expressing a sanguine view of events is his concern that if he did, home-front warriors would demand all-out escalation and instant victory. Conversely, Johnson often sounds as much or more concerned with the dovecoterie, apparently fearing that optimistic portents from the White House would redouble the clamor for a negotiated peace...
...reported the shooting. Alford was still desperately trying to catch up, and when an Appeal reporter called with an account of what had happened, the A.P. man picked up an extension to listen in. "Meredith has been shot in the back and the head," the reporter said. In the clamor, Alford thought he heard "Meredith has been shot dead...
...amount of clamor from Harvard's dissatisfied cadets will ever change drill. The ROTC euphemism for it is "leadership lab." Cadets simply endure most of it, for two hours every week. But those who have a chance to take charge and lead the drills say that it is trickier than it looks, and does give them a certain amount of confidence in their leadership abilities...