Word: clamoring
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...victory: "We gave thanks to God for the noblest of all His blessings, the sense that we had done our duty." The Voice. It seems a distant victory now, with yesterday's friends and foes dizzyingly reversed. His own finest hour remains the summer of 1940, with the clamor of fighters overhead, the army trucks clattering along country roads, the crunch of falling bombs, the civilians digging trenches against the invasion that could come at any hour. All this is not memory but only history to a new generation. But it is still sometimes brought to life-for instance...
...satisfy the clamor for a civilian government, Huong had put together a Cabinet of younger men (average age: 47) than had ruled before. They were bureaucrats and technicians who in general were chosen for ability, not to satisfy political debts. The Cabinet was, in Huong's words, determined to "crack down on graft and nepotism, strengthen the economy, improve housing, education and health." What could be wrong with that? Plenty, according to powerful Ngu yen Xuan Chu, 73, acting chairman of the High National Council, a group of official watchdogs known to Saigon cynics as the "National Museum." Huffing...
...admiral bellows one night in a manic epiphany. "The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor! We'll build him a monument -the Tomb of the Unknown Sailor." Telegrams crackle, Joint Chiefs harrumph, orders arrive, engines clamor, machine guns cachinnate, and sure enough, the first dead man on Omaha Beach turns out to be-Garner. Next day every daily in the U.S. front-pages his picture, but a week later the corpse turns up alive. "Omigawd!" gasps the officer (James Coburn) in charge of public relations. "Instead of a dead hero...
...danger, of course, is that the two sides may have been driven so far apart that Pearson will find it infinitely more difficult to push through the things that French Canadians clamor for: more provincial autonomy and a stronger voice in federal affairs. Yet, if nothing else, the Queen's unpleasant reception brought all of Canada face to face with a problem that many English Canadians had never bothered to think about before. "This came as a real shock in Ontario," said Eleanor Berry, a Toronto secretary...
...hundred and seventy years ago this month, George Washington dispatched a force of 16,000 troops to put down the Whiskey Rebellion, an uprising of western Pennsylvania corn farmers against the federal excise tax on distillers. The rebellion was subdued, but the clamor against excise taxes-a form of national sales tax levied on certain goods and transactions-still goes on. Both businessmen and consumers have long considered the excise tax a bothersome burden. In this election year, the issue is one of the few on which both presidential candidates seem to agree: the Democratic platform pledges to eliminate many...