Word: clamoring
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...made good that promise with George Smiley, who was a walk-on in The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. But these Circus clowns and aerialists will no longer live on promises: in The Honourable Schoolboy they jostle and clamor for the reader's attention. Fieldmen, office workers, a parade of journalists and reprobates (The Honourable Schoolboy finds the two synonymous), half-castes and Orientals give the book the richness of a Victorian novel of manners...
Still, the plane's British and French makers can take some comfort from having prevailed in the international contretemps. The Concorde could not meet the standards of a 1969 U.S. federal regulation that set maximum noise levels for jets. But the clamor to permit the Concorde into the U.S. was so great that William Coleman, the Ford Administration's Transportation Secretary, decided in 1975 to give the aircraft a 16-month test at Washington's Dulles and New York's John F. Kennedy International airports. Local suits blocked the test at J.F.K., but 100-seat Concordes...
...Spains" of old. So he stepped in himself. His lieutenants converted the faltering centrist alliance into a coalition composed of Social Democrats, Christian Democrats, liberals and a number of former Franco officials. Although he promised to resign if the U.C.D. lost, the Premier was sensitive to opposition clamor about the unfair advantage his office might give him. Thus he made only one campaign appearance. But he managed, nonetheless, to get across the message that he would bring change without risk and without trauma...
...this week began, helicopters were still buzzing angrily over the Tennessee mountains, and sweating officers and their bloodhounds were laboring slowly through the bush. Whatever happens, the clamor to find out how Ray managed to escape from a maximum-security prison is bound to go on. Even more disturbing, Americans will be wondering all over again, more seriously than ever, whether or not the wanted man had acted alone when he killed King. The case of James Earl Ray still has a long, long...
...chef can cook a suckling pig, bake bread and produce an entire dinner at the same time. Moreover, the grill turned out to be a penny-saving charcoal miser: closing the dampers extinguishes the fire, so that leftover charcoal can be reused. These virtues made Stephen's neighbors clamor for copies of his initial grill; after he had made a few of them, demand seemed so strong that in 1958 he left the sheet-metal company to found Weber-Stephen Products Co. and make the grills full time. In 1964 he took over an old factory in Arlington Heights...