Word: clamoring
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...boast: that he would some day be Governor of Kentucky. This he branded last week as a base canard; he just intends to "run for something." With a fair show of diffidence he confided: "My ears are to the ground, but I don't hear any popular clamor...
Over the little village of Solebury, shining down on eastern Pennsylvania's rolling fields and wooded hills, the moon was clear in a still, star-frosted sky. In nearby Washington's Crossing and New Hope on the Delaware River the sirens and automobile horns had stopped their clamor. The old fire engine which had clanged happily around the green-banked dirt roads was back in its barn...
Even when they fly still intact, rattletrap, ungainly, frail, murderous, the suicide planes are lonely and individual as faces, macabre as hearses, cryptic as death itself. And against the "men who want to die" roars up the desperate skill and clamor of the "men who fight to live." Both the intrepidity of reason, and the intrepidity of whatever the Japanese use in its place, are caught in The Fleet That Came to Stay in a relationship beyond all logic. It is not a pleasant film. It is an immemorially primitive nightmare in extremely modern dress; a dance of death...
Many a U.S. citizen, pondering Japan's abject helplessness to defend its own shores (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), asked: must they fight it out to the end? In Congress, clamor for a clear definition of U.S. policy toward a defeated Japan would not down...
These maneuvers were on the quiet. Far from quiet was the clamor against Padilla as a too obedient friend of the U.S. State Department. In the interest of Pan-American unity, he had favored admitting Argentina to the United Nations conference at San Francisco. Anti-U.S. feeling, always smoldering in Mexico, recently burst into flame with a series of speeches and newspaper articles against Padilla. His collaboration with the U.S., they charged, had turned into "entreguismo" (selling out). A damaging rumor went the rounds-that U.S. Ambassador George S. Messersmith was urging President Harry S. Truman...