Word: clamoring
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...maintained a private game preserve near Paris, but, said a friend last week, he "never went in for displays of wealth. That would not occur to him." In the '30s, the world was swept by a pacifist wave of indignation against the Undershafts and the De Wendels. The clamor against the "merchants of death" was largely justified, but its main effect was to keep the U.S. and Britain from being well enough prepared to prevent World...
...throughout the country interest her most. She sees in them the best way of perpetuating the taste she has done so much to develop. The many programs she has presented at Harvard are typical of what the Foundation has done in every major college in the country. The resulting clamor for more testifies to her success in popularizing chamber music...
...bustling Nanking street, a newsboy said, "When headlines cry peace, it's easy to sell papers." Last week, the newsboy sold a lot of papers. A mounting clamor for peace with the Communists, at almost any price, was sweeping Nationalist China's crumbling fronts...
...miles southeast for an interview with Communist General Lin Piao, who refused either to see or talk to them. Red guns resumed their shelling and Communist troops stormed across a dike surrounding the city to capture the North Station. At week's end it looked as if the clamor for peace in one of China's largest cities had been silenced-by the surging tide of Communist conquest...
...midst of that clamor last week, Chambers resigned as a senior editor of TIME. "When TIME hired me in 1939," he wrote in his statement, "its editors knew that I was an ex-Communist; they did not know that espionage was involved . . . After nine years of work done in good conscience, I have been called upon to expose the darkest and most dangerous side of Communism-espionage. This can be done only if a man who knows the facts will stand up and tell them without regard to the cost or consequences to himself. I cannot share this indispensable ordeal...