Word: clamoring
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...subject of worldwide concern, debate, even bitterness. Reason: the free world faces the grave possibility of a shortage of money to use in financing its rapidly growing international trade and investment, partly because it has leaned too heavily on a couple of powerful currencies. The result is the loudest clamor in 20 years for a reform and updating of the world's monetary system?that motley of treaties and gentlemanly agreements through which the major nations have agreed to finance their commerce with one another...
...remained at that level since (though some stocks have been added and others dropped, most recently in 1959). Like other respected averages, D-J industrials reflect long-term trends in the market, but, advised the magazine, "on a day-to-day basis, be wary." Despite all the clamor for better figures, however, the New York Stock Exchange has so far been cool to suggestions that it do the obvious: issue its own index...
...first real test since wresting the presidency from Dave McDonald, knows that a reasonably sweet settlement would enhance his reputation far more than a disruptive strike. The union realizes that if a strike comes, the companies could hold out for quite a while before customers would begin to clamor for a settlement at any cost. Reason: customers have stockpiled between 12 and 14 million extra tons of steel, or a 60-day supply...
Susan B. Anthony: I don't think this discussion is being carried on in the proper spirit. The cause of women's rights is a true and noble one, and should not be confused with the degrading clamor one hears nowadays from certain brazen young women for sexual equality. Let us not be distracted from our work, let us on to full female employment, more girls to medical school...
...When Patrice Lumumba was murdered by his own native political enemies, a worldwide propaganda drive turned the unstable and squalid rabble-rouser into a martyr and tried to pin the deed on the CIA. Attempting to woo the Afro-Asian segment of world opinion, the Kennedy Administration joined the clamor against Lumumba's former enemies and supported the U.N. war against Moise Tshombe's Katanga province. Since then the U.S. has switched, is supporting Tshombe as the man who can conceivably avert chaos in the Congo and who so far has been successful in suppressing the Red-backed...