Word: clamoring
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...latest flap began when President Reagan received the disciplinary recommendation from the CIA's inspector general. Reagan had ordered the internal investigation amid a continuing clamor over sections of the manual that advocated the "neutralization" of local Nicaraguan officials. Critics seized upon that term as a code word for assassination. Furthermore, they charged, the manual shows that the CIA is violating a 1982 congressional amendment barring it from engaging in any activity aimed at overthrowing the Sandinistas. Reagan responded with the credulity-straining explanation that the word neutralization meant nothing more than "you just say to the fellow that...
...play, Evrard sees her production turn into a fiasco. When Marat is stabbed, the passions of the inmates erupt. They assault one another, pummel away at the nuns, rush at the bars which separate them from the audience and clamor for freedom. This is how the mob acts when it rises up in revolution. We are all maniacs. Weiss seems to say, and society is our asylum...
...test of time extremely well. Economic aid to the region triples the amount of military aid. The Caribbean Basin Initiative of 1982 holds out additional economic hope for the nations of the region. Even Cuba seems to offer the possibility for rapprochement. Against such a record the constant liberal clamor for talks loses cogency. Why talk with someone who has no reason to listen? Ronald Reagan and his Administration have provided forceful incentive for both the Sandinistas and the Salvadoran right to sit up and pay attention...
...coverage is distorted because we emphasize the bad things, because there is no pro-Soviet lobby in this country to clamor about the coverage the way there is for the Chinese, and because the American Journalists are undertrained. Soviet journalists are professional Americanists. They study the country and they cover it for life...
Amid all the clamor, independent Challenger James Taylor's painfully earnest pleas for nuclear "sanity" are muffled. Taylor, 34, a former newspaper reporter who refuses all PAC campaign contributions, is so strapped for cash that his first campaign signs were hand-lettered. Though he may get some votes from Democrats repelled by Robinson's rowdiness, the race remains either Petty's or Robinson's to win. Impartial observers cautiously favor the sheriff, but Petty says bravely, "I'm running as if it were neck and neck...