Word: clamoring
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...insistent clamor raised by academic "peace" advocates for a softening of U.S. policy in Viet Nam finally got a hard, straight reply. It came from Secretary of State Dean Rusk, normally a man given to the soft language of diplomats. Addressing a Washington meeting of the American Society of International Law, Rusk unsheathed some plain talk and slashed away with unerring accuracy and logic at the Johnson Administration's critics...
When Casement was found guilty, a clamor rose from Ireland, the U.S. and even Britain that he be reprieved. But the prosecution had a weapon of great power: the "black diaries" said to have been found in a trunk Casement left behind in his old London lodgings...
...happen. The National Labor Relations Board, which normally takes weeks to ponder such moves, got federal courts in New York and Baltimore to order the strikers back to work. The union at first ignored the injunctions, but at week's end "Teddy" Gleason, perhaps noting the congressional clamor for a law to forbid another such walkout, ordered his men back to their jobs everywhere except in Texas and South Atlantic ports...
...ventures, the most promising of which will extend operations at Chuquicamata, already the world's largest open-pit copper mine (TIME, Jan. 1). Nationalists and leftists in Congress are not likely to act on that presidential idea either. They accuse Frei of selling out to the Yanquis, and clamor for outright nationalization of the nearly $1 billion worth of U.S. copper interests in Chile...
...succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but rather because of what we believe. For we are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor of building and the rush of our day's pursuits, we are believers in justice and liberty and union, and in our own Union. We believe that every man must some day be free. And we believe in ourselves...