Word: clamoring
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...Basilica, Pope Pius pronounced the ancient formula: "In the most holy name of the Trinity ... for the exaltation of the Catholic faith and the increase of the Christian religion. . . ." Then, with the solemn notes of the Te Deum, and the pomp of a papal High Mass, and the clamor of Roman church bells, Francesca Saverio Cabrini became the first U.S. saint...
Last week, above the clamor of hunger and the echoes of two wars, Europe's people still heard the voice of the spirit that for 2,000 years had made Christendom, for all its failures and struggles, the greatest of human communities. In numbers unprecedented before fascism and war closed over them, the people of Europe expressed a choice by ballot as to how they should order their lives: whether in concert with the principles on which Europe had been built, or the new principles stemming from man's relation with things rather than his relation with...
Outfaced by public clamor and ridicule, and the Brazilian Association of Pharmacists, the Government last week backed down. Druggists could needle cariocas...
Peace was a clamor, a quest, a foreboding struggle. But politicians and publicists accounted for nearly all the news. Seldom had the people been quieter than in the months before V-E day, 1946. Even where "popular" demonstrations occurred (in Detroit, or Trieste, or Cairo) they had a manipulated look as of soldiers marshaled for parade. While their leaders made history, what went on among the people for whom (and ultimately by whom) history is made? Their leaders were concerned (perhaps necessarily) with remote and technical matters-U.N. procedures, boundaries, interest rates on international loans; from what was said...
Walking along in the soft light, the President remarked approvingly that few people seem to recognize him during his strolls (none of the dozen who had passed had turned to stare). After almost a year as President, the President was still surprised at the clamor produced by his public appearances; he thought that even a President ought to have a little privacy...