Word: clamoring
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Abbott grinned as the House roared, and waited patiently for the clamor to subside to let him explain some of his reasoning. The middle-income brackets had been given the most careful consideration because they include so many people on fixed salaries, who have gained least in the economic expansion since 1939. Also, they include young men in science, business and the professions who are most readily lost...
...Government to blame? Harry Truman jumped into the argument. His hands were not spotless. He had encouraged Labor to clamor for higher wages after V-J day. At the same time, he tried to keep prices hammer-locked. The paradox stalled production. Like most politicians, he had bowed before the sacred idol of support for farm prices, which would keep a floor under food costs until...
...more heartaches locally than Ted Weems's recording ever dreamed of. The disc jockey, having access to twelve million pairs of ears via the ether waves, nightly pleads for each listener to write you to put his name in TIME. . . . Unless you do something soon to stop the clamor in the local press and radio station, you may expect an express collect package to arrive in your office soon. . . . It's my radio I'm. sending...
Shortage of available tickets and a temporary undergraduate financial recession after mid-winter frolics has led student opera-lovers to clamor for the parts of extras in "Carmen" and "Aida," productions of which are scheduled for March 20 and 22 at the Opera House...
...that a "friendless, helpless stranger" had been jailed for a very poor reason: withholding her identity. Manhattan papers took up the cry. Attorney James A. Major of the American Civil Liberties Union demanded that she be given a new trial. Offers of money, clothes and jobs poured in. The clamor got too loud for the sensitive ears of judge and prosecutor...