Word: clamoring
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When the curtain was down, the audience gave cast, conductor, director and designer their due. Then they set up a clamor for "Bing, Bing," until the man they really wanted to thank came out for an embarrassed...
Just when most Republican critics had muted their demands for Dean Acheson's head, the silence was broken by a new clamor. New York's middle-of-the-road, internationalist Republican Senator Irving Ives was for getting his colleagues together in a formal demand that the Secretary of State be sacked...
...Resist America" propaganda and mobilization mounted in clamor and fury. In Nanking a U.S. missionary teacher was publicly humiliated. In Shanghai, U.S. movies were branded as "spiritual poison." In Canton a doctors' rally pledged a boycott of U.S. medicines. Everywhere students were recruited for military service. Peking's Current Affairs Journal instructed the faithful: "Hate the U.S., for she is the deadly enemy of the Chinese people. Despise the U.S., for she is a rotten imperialist nation . . . Look with contempt on the U.S., for she is a paper tiger and can fully be defeated . . ." The Journal added that...
...years ago, while setting up U.S. engagements for Director David (Great Expectations) Lean's version of Oliver Twist, British Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank ran into a clamor of protest. Jewish groups protested Dickens' "villainous and repulsive" Fagin, as played in the movie by Alec (The Cocktail Party) Guinness in exaggerated make-up modeled on the famed Cruikshank drawings. Was the movie Fagin a public demonstration of antiSemitism? Rank bowed to the outcry, postponed the U.S. opening "indefinitely" (TIME...
Specifically, the clamor for a codified set of regulations started after the Dean's Office had declined to recognize a magazine entitled "The New Student." Recognition was declined on the grounds that the magazine violated a University principle--in this case that more than half the content of an undergraduate magazine must be student written...