Word: clamoring
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...dying clamor of the Great Debate a final decision emerged last week. The U.S. Senate endorsed President Truman's plans to send four U.S. divisions-about 100,000 men-to Europe to form, with the two already over there, the U.S. core of General Dwight Eisenhower's North Atlantic Defense army. In doing so, the Senate approved the first peacetime deployment of a U.S. defense army overseas...
...scouting party came back with an adverse report. The problem of housing and protecting the President in unfamiliar surroundings and setting up adequate communications raised all sorts of complications. Besides, local politicians had already gotten scent of the enterprise and would clamor for the President's ear wherever he decided to relax. Harry Truman listened, then wearily agreed to postpone the trip. But he admitted at last that he needed rest-except for two quick trips to Missouri, he had taken the heavy hammering of Washington for eight straight months...
...Mathieu, shrank from commitment, thinking to escape choice. Now, a few wake to the thought that their very failure to act--the vote they did not cast, the protest they did not speak--was itself a choice: a choice of war, and with war, defeat-Mathieu understands: "Let them clamor to the skies: 'We have nothing to do with this mess! We are guiltless' . . . What was true was the indefinable fault they had all committed, our fault...
...Britain, angry and unbowed, lurched along through the Great Muddle. The nation had survived far greater crises. The unique feature of this one was that it seemed to have no focus, no great principle at stake, no end. If the clamor got too great, Attlee could always jettison Webb and agree to the Argentine meat price. Socialism was an admirable instrument for rationing discomfort and deadening pain...
...Jakarta, where the Republican government of President Soekarno had staked its position and prestige on getting title to West Irian, the political weather quickly turned squally. The country's nationalistic press raised a clamor for ending Indonesia's twelve-month-old union with The Netherlands...