Word: clamoring
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This maze of committees and delegations works pretty well, but occasionally the Yale undergraduates really get aroused over something--say inadequate snow removal in front of Woolesley Hall--and then a clamor for a focus of student opinion goes...
...Such clamor has in the past been pretty well squelched by tradition, some student hostility, much student apathy, and by the Yale Daily News. The News wields terrific influence at Yale. Its editors sparkle brightest in the Eli hierarchy of "wheels." One man, the chairman, dictates policy for its editorial page and, in the past, he has been loathe to share his powerful position with any other group. No other organization has tried to speak for undergraduates...
What military leaders feared most was a post-Korean public clamor to release reservists now in the services, and to taper off on the draft. They were dead against such ideas. Another question that worried them (but not nearly so much): How long can you keep a big armed force up to snuff if nothing happens...
...matter, of capturing unreasonable war profits. Even Harry Truman's own tax experts privately confess that in both wars the tax proved inherently unfair, vastly difficult to administer, and an unsatisfactory revenue producer. Last week Tax Expert Beardsley Ruml told the American Bar Association in Washington that the clamor for an excess profits tax is "a hysterical manifestation of schizophrenic masochism." Nobody, he added, had ever yet been able to devise a good...
Johnson's answer was hardly calculated to still the clamor. The facts were, said Johnson, that the U.S. armed strength had been greatly increased in the past two years, that his defense economies had never cut into U.S. fighting forces...