Word: clamoring
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...confetti cascaded down from hotel rooms, and the traffic din from Lake Shore Drive fell to a whisper under the tumult in the streets. Squeezing through the tight throngs, Nixon found safety at last in his Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel suite. But it was a safety of sorts. Beneath the clamor and the cheers lay a snorting Republican rebellion that threatened the future not only of Nixon himself but of his party...
...Live!" The legislature's capital-punishment hearing took place against the stir and clamor of mounting agitation to save Chessman from the "green room," as Death Row inmates call it. An auto caravan pulled into Sacramento bringing 384 University of California faculty signatures on a petition urging abolition of capital punishment. A rodeo rider, billed as a "minuteman," drove his tired horse from San Francisco to Sacramento, picking up save-Chessman signatures along the way. An unemployed schoolteacher named Norbert Nicholas was in the fourth day of a save-Chessman hunger strike in Sacramento. At the capitol building...
...message to the state legislature last week, is "a gross failure," primarily inflicted "upon the weak, the poor, the ignorant and against racial minorities. Beyond its horror and incivility, it has neither protected the innocent nor deterred the wicked." As he promised to do when he yielded to global clamor and put off for 60 days the execution of Kidnaper-Author Caryl Chessman last month (TIME, Feb. 29), Brown was asking the legislature to reconsider the state's death penalty-and, in so doing, to give him inferentially some guidance on how to dispose of the keen-minded kidnaper...
Heck & Darnation Sir: Cheers for Florence Russell of Venice, Calif, [whose attempt to introduce the poetry of Ogden Nash, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound to her English students was quashed -Dec. 28] Ten to one, that same segment of the public which suppresses freedom of thought identifies with those who clamor for better education. It is illogical to demand the one without the other...
There is a clamor in these times among the newspapers and the vulgus for the business men in government offices rather than the old-time politicians. The businessmen are answering the call and carrying in with them under their arms business methods and business maims. Among the revolutionary theories propounded is that of Mr. Davis, Secretary of Labor--that it will pay to advertise politics as well as patent medicine...