Word: clamoring
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...those months General MacArthur, beglamored by Bataan, had reached Australia to take over a united command amid the plaudits of a hero-hungry people. Australian spirits rebounded from the Singapore slump to a crest of clamor for men & tools to launch a gigantic offensive northward against the Japanese. Not till the staggering news of the fall of Tobruk did Australians realize that their Pacific second front was receding into the future, and chat they had in their midst the strange spectacle of a four-star general, only top-ranking U.S. officer experienced in actual combat in World War II, stranded...
Good directors make quiet pictures, and Miniver's freedom from unnatural clamor is pleasant proof of it. Some of the picture's atmosphere is directly due to Wyler's World War I experiences. He was twelve when the war began, and his parents' home in Mulhouse was French. Alsace-Lorraine was a major battleground. Mulhouse changed hands a dozen times before the Armistice, and Wyler spent considerable time underground. His most vivid memory: crawling out of the cellar after each conflict, wondering whether he was French or German...
...more than on the same date last year. This total included 8,399,000 members of farm families; the rest were hired men, women, children. A peak of 12,000,000 farm workers was predicted for July, 13-20% of whom might be women. The clamor about shortages arose because the labor demand grew faster than the labor supply, new hands are less able, and youngsters cannot handle the heavy machinery...
...Britons a-clamor for Continental action, Lord Louis personifies the second front. They know him as the chief of their savage specialists in hit-&-run invasion, the Commandos. Actually, he has a larger and more complex job: he is Chief of Combined Operations, directing not only the Commando troops themselves but the naval and air units which share the labor, glory and death of Commando raids...
...requiring newsboys and street stands to pay a $10-a-year license fee for out-of-State papers they handled. That, thought Reilly. would put a crimp in PM's Boston circulation. By week's end, when even Hearst's own Boston Record joined the general clamor for a mayoralty veto. Reporter Reilly discovered that he had overlooked one important fact: Hearst's New York Daily Mirror has a profitable Sunday street sale in Boston...