Word: clamoring
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...Writers must take it up and strike, before the Gotterdammerung. The tale acts as a light, disarming way to begin a book with such a solemn title. But from the first pages forward Gardner relies on the logical force of this tale and his other metaphors while we clamor for him to enter the trenches of carefully planned argument...
...seas had prevented French authorities from pumping out the supertanker's remaining 15,000 tons of oil (of an original 220,000 tons). Efforts to release the trapped crude with explosives planted by divers under the ship's surviving tanks had failed. So, amid a rising national clamor for action, officials ordered in the choppers. That way, at least, all the oil would finally be released and there would be no prospect of months and perhaps even years of continued oil trickles along northern Brittany's already badly tarred beaches, as the Amoco Cadiz slowly broke...
...knew it would happen, and when the clamor had died down, He proclaimed, "We have arrived. Come, reach out and join me in my pilgrimmage. All lend a hand...
...PLOT OF THE PLAY generally follows the Biblical narrative: Samuel chooses Saul when the Israelites clamor for a king. Saul, a study in kingly ineptitude, disappoints Samuel in war and in government; consequently, Samuel shifts his favor secretly to David. David lives with Saul, who comes to love him as a son; but alas, David schemes to take power, aided by Samuel. A growing rivalry between the two leads David to defect to the Philistines, a belligerent tribe. David wins the battle, then drives the Philistines out, and feigns a sense of bereavement over the death of Saul...
Amid the mounting clamor of student groups calling for Harvard's divestiture of its holdings in the banks--Citibank and Manufacturers Hanover Trust--the investment firm that controls part of Harvard's investment portfolio suddenly announced it was selling the bank stocks "for investment reasons...