Word: clamoring
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...TIME have its editorial tongue in cheek when reporting "Playing the Angles" [Oct. 21]? Are . . . readers to assume that American citizens have become so completely demoralized that they must court dishonesty in a thriving black market, must lie, cheat and connive in their frenetic clamor for meat, soap and automobiles, and disown their offspring to obtain an apartment? . . . Not only have we an ample supply of meat, but thousands of Canadians are donating meat coupons to the Canadian Meat Board to help feed the starving Europeans. . . . I have no wish to be smug, but surely if Canada...
Amid the popular clamor for a quick peace and an end to bickering, the sharper observers saw plainly that if the U.S. and Britain had not been frank and firm and patient with Russia in the Allied Control Council for Germany and on the Eastern European treaties, the chances of an enduring German settlement would be slimmer than they...
Although the clamor on the subject has temporarily died down, "The Tech" asserted that it had by no means finished with the issue...
Adding the voices of 17 smaller nations to those of the Big Four had not wrought miraculous reconciliations. It had increased the size of the meetings, padded out the votes, added to the clamor. (Yugoslavia, for example, sounded more intransigent than the Kremlin on the subject of Trieste.) Russia, which had not liked the idea of a 21-nation conference in the first place, had used it as a rostrum from which to warn the world against Anglo-U.S. domination, and to accuse the U.S. of profiting at the expense of war-torn Europe. But if temperamental optimists...
...answered that he was there to denounce the highly touted project of the new French union incorporated in the constitution as "codifying a new colonialism as dangerous as the colonialism of yesterday. The colonial policy of France was one of the principal sores of the Third Republic." An angry clamor broke out in the Chamber. Some rightist and center deputies stalked out in indignation. Others, including MRP President Maurice Schumann, bolted from their seats toward the speaker in a menacing fashion, shouting insults as they came. Algerian followers of Abbas got ready to join the seemingly inevitable melee...