Word: clamoring
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Catchpenny Clamor. The urgency was obvious. Therefore it was not surprising that Lord Beaverbrook, inveterate roarer for a second front, should roar again to the peers of the realm: "I believe that the war is not won. Whatever may be the plans of the Germans, we should strike and strike now, before the Germans can regroup their divisions. We should strike before the Germans can recover from the Russian offensive...
...true facts just now. The Earl of Listowel accused the Beaver of doing "a positive disservice to the country" by bringing the matter up at this juncture. Viscount Simon said that the discussion was "absolutely dangerous," called the term second front a "catchpenny phrase," based on ill-informed clamor...
...newly risen full moon sprinkled the steps of the temple Lakshmi Narain Mandir at Delhi. The temple bells clanged loud & long. Before the shrine stood a priest in a massive turban and with the holy mark gleaming on his forehead. The bells and the drums and cymbals ceased their clamor. Gently moving his hands, the priest led the congregation in a song. Offerings of flowers and sweets on brass plates were made to the deities. Then began a prayer for the life of a scrawny little man, toothless, moneyless, helpless Mohandas Gandhi...
...demands to crack farm price ceilings. That will be the next problem for Jimmy Byrnes, who apparently has chosen to fight the battle against inflation with political compromises. It will be a tough one, perhaps tougher than labor's demands. Jimmy Byrnes had decided to fight the clamor for higher farm prices with farm subsidies; this week a House subcommittee turned that plan down. In the light of this, the 48-hour-week was just the last stopgap compromise before the next...
...month. Labor seized on this admission, coupled it with the fact that living costs have risen about 4% since May 1942-the date when the War Labor Board's Little Steel formula, allowing for 15% wage increases, was put into effect. From half a dozen points came clamor for wage boosts: > Before WLB are demands by 200,000 West Coast aircraft workers and 64,000 meat packers for wage increases. > Railroad employes, numbering more than 1,000,000, are seeking increases up to 30% an hour...