Word: clamoring
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...last car was even with a roped-off boardwalk. The Kansans cheered and crowded close as the ruddy, bareheaded man in the grey doublebreasted suit climbed down the steps, beamed, waved and shook hands around. Then, with Mamie on his right, Ike made his way through the clamor and the handshakes to his first political platform...
...righteous clamor, outraged desk-thumping and shocked eye-rolling, nothing quite equals the U.S. Congress in those ood, occasional moments when it feels that its honor has been impugned. Last week members of the House hit the ceiling so hard that it seemed for a while they would have to be scraped off, en masse. The Congressmen believed they were being accused by one of their own number of being drunks and spies...
...Enemy is the story of a young man named Fabien whose pious mother does her best to shield him from life. Fabien knows nothing of "the strident clamor of desire . . . the storm that rages about the ship of humanity when God slumbers at the stern." Twice a year, however, a gay and worldly woman named Fanny comes to visit his mother, and her visits somehow suggest delights the boy can hardly specify. At 22, Fabien meets Fanny again. Fabien drops his theological studies and becomes her lover, and then, torn by self-anguish, drops her in turn and determines...
...over Owen Lattimore, the professor and publicist who played an influential role* in the shaping of U.S. Far Eastern policy, is part of a greater clamor of alarm: What U.S. mistakes led to the Communist conquest of China and the assault in Korea? Who is responsible for the mistakes...
...Iraqi oil before World War I, but the Germans cut in and both were stymied. They made a deal and were about to start work when the war interfered. In 1920, with the Germans ousted, the French insisted on getting into the act; then the Americans set up a clamor. Turkish Petroleum was renamed Iraq Petroleum and was divided between Britain, France, the U.S. and The Netherlands, with each holding 23.75%. The remaining 5% went appropriately to the wily old Armenian influence-peddler who got them together: Calouste S. Gulbenkian, another candidate for richest man in the world...