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...Germany might be unable to survive on its own. Union with Austria might become a necessity. Russia might well oppose a union of Catholic Bavaria and Catholic Austria, prefer to draw Austria into a bloc with Czechoslovakia and Poland. West Germans - Rhinelanders, Saarlanders, Westphalians of the Ruhr Valley - might clamor to be made independent, too. (At the end of World War I there was a brief Rhineland republic.) Bismarck's unifying labors in the 19th Century and recent Nazi pressure to eradicate old boundaries within the Reich may have gone so far that all dismemberment now would fail...
...director of cinema thrillers. At a large stag dinner party, when his turn came to enrich the traditional ambience of brandy & cigars with an off-color story, he murmured diffidently: "I have a story, but I'd best not tell it because it's rather long." The clamor for it was insistent. Then for three-quarters of an hour Hitch held a dozen grown men breathless, waiting for the double-entendre, while he told the story of Cinderella -straight...
...grass-root William Allen White's Emporia Gazette stated in plain singletalk, the question whether they can "believe the reports and statements of our leaders ... in this war." The people did not shout for General Patton's scalp. There were editorial shouts and much dinner-table clamor-and humorists in the Army's monstrous Pentagon Building in Washington sang: "Pistol Packing Patton Laid that Private Down." But PM's honest editor John P. Lewis admitted that his mail was running almost 5-to-1 against the paper's high-blood-pressure cry for a court...
...outshouted all other jingoists in demands for aggression, became known as "Father of Japan's Fascism." Vain and headstrong, he refused offers of high Government posts (except for a spell as a vice minister); his goal was to rule the Government through his party, through threats, through the clamor of the rabble. Though Cabinets feared and hated him, he never dominated any of them. But as Japan's best-known fascist, he helped to mold the public mind, supplied the Army with totalitarian catchwords, had much to do with plunging Japan into...
...hasn't hankered at one time or another for the "big office" complex?. The clamor of telephones and typewriters, the pulse beat of a full-fledged newspaper, are not always restricted to climax scenes in the movies. Harvard's only breakfast table paper stands ready to share some of its excitement Tuesday night...