Word: clamoring
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...national clamor [Gallup poll: 49%] for a united high command of the Army & Navy, had been answered by the Presidential appointment of a "generalissimo" whose job Mr. Roosevelt now defined as that of a mere "legman...
...Downing Street. Ex-President Eduard Benes of ex-Czecho-Slovakia urged an immediate second front in the hope of obtaining peace "within a year." Ex-War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha demanded either a second front or continuous British bombing raids. But the most powerful new voice added to the clamor was that of tough Jack Tanner, president of the 600,000-member Amalgamated Engineering Union. Said...
...Japanese might have been happier had he heard the ominous prediction of Congressman John M. Coffee that "there will be an attack on the Alaskan mainland, British Columbia or the Pacific Northwest before the end of summer." By week's end public clamor and military silence had grown so great that the Senate Military Affairs Committee decided to send out its own scouting party, headed by Senator Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler, to find out what was really happening in unhappy Alaska...
...where public opinion is no less eager to get on with the war than in Britain, there has been less general clamor for a second front, more disposition to leave the decision as to time and place to military men. But last week the St. Louis Star-Times, in a front-page editorial was hard-hitting as Michael Foot's, came out for a second front- now or never...
Paunchy, hook-nosed Léon Daudet spent most of his life in a seriocomic clamor for the return of the House of Bourbon-Orleans to the throne of France. His prose style was a far cry from the gentle whimsy which brought fame to his father, Alphonse Daudet (Tartarin de Tarascon, Lettres de Mon Moulin, etc.). Léon Daudet's editorials in L'Action were slapstick smacks in which he called his enemies female camels, unfecund sows, burst dogs, humpbacked cats, circumcised hermaphrodites. In a courtroom squabble Daudet once screamed "liar" at an opponent so long...