Word: clamoring
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...give timely aid & comfort to the miscellaneous followers of Henry A. Wallace and others of their ilk abroad, thus stirring up a popular clamor to make Western Governments appease Russia further...
Education ranks third in importance as a problem to be met by the students of the University if one is to make a judgment solely on the audible clamor raised by the students themselves. Housing and prices continue to be the chief worry-makers among the candidates for Harvard degrees...
...neighboring area of national defense Congress fell short of the mark-and reflected the will of the people in the process. By its clamor to bring the boys home it forced a nervous War Department to pull down its Army: it buried a universal-military-training law under the woodshed; it stripped away the strength of the Draft...
What such a clamor on the part of the veteran for more money would mean in terms of feeding the inflation bonfire was demonstrated on the floor of the Senate last week. Senator David I. Walsh, his eye on the November election, proposed a raise in the allotment from 65 dollars to 90, and from 90 to 115 dollars. On the basis of the 1,700,000 veterans now in college or on-the-job training, such a boost would cost the Federal Government an extra half a billion dollars annually...
Many a U.S. doctor dreads the monthly appearance of the Reader's Digest: chances are that Paul de Kruif will be tub-thumping for some new variety of snake oil. And chances are that a lot of patients will clamor for the new remedy, then grumble when told it is dubious or premature...