Word: clamoring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Russia's bargaining position had been improved by an unexpectedly weak U.S. policy. When Washington, yielding to pressure, let it be known recently that U.S. forces would be "gradually withdrawn" from China, American officers and men in the theater lost interest in their jobs, joined the clamor to pull out and leave China to civil...
...clamor for more of the good things of life was strong; even Party organizers were grousing. Kalinin chided them: "You were grumbling here that there is not enough consumers' goods. Of course, there isn't and there cannot be enough...
This time, Navymen wet their fingers and gazed anxiously aloft. The clamor for immediate demobilization and the complaints of reserves whistled through the rigging. The drive to merge the services (see below) might blow either fair or foul. The Navy no longer had such a great and loving friend in the White House as a Roosevelt (T. or F.D.). Onetime Artilleryman Harry Truman went out of his way last week to give the men in blue and gold the back of his hand. Praising General of the Army George Marshall the President wisecracked: "He [Marshall] succeeded in getting the Navy...
...Navy has resisted public clamor; only 255,000 of the Navy's 3,000,000 have been released. But under growing pressure, and aware of the damage its policy has had on the morale of its reserves-both officers and enlisted men- even the Navy is beginning grudgingly to relax, will raise its discharge rate to 280,000 a month by January...
Adapted to broadcasting, it may solve the problem of how to accommodate all the crooners and soap operas which clamor to get on the air. A single P.T.M. transmitter, for instance, atop the Empire State Building, might serve as a joint outlet for most of the studios in New York City. Listeners could concentrate on a single program, or, if they wanted to take the punishment, connect their receiving set (plus a little additional equipment) with loudspeakers in different rooms, each playing a different program...