Word: clamoring
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...Providence Civic Center. Paunchy and jowly at 42, the King scarcely bumped or gyrated. But just like old times, he crooned hoary favorites such as Hound Dog and Teddy Bear, and when he periodically tossed a sweat-stained scarf to the peons below, he set off a clawing clamor. A gratifying finale of female screams greeted his ultimate compliment, the understatement of the evening: "You've been a good audience...
...Czar's escape from an 1866 bombing, and was ornately depicted in the exhibition painting; hence the bells, gong, pounding drums and full orchestra which close the work in thrilling fashion. The orchestra, although seeming now a bit too fast in parts, ended the work with a befiting clamor of vying instruments, sounding like a celebration and evoking the patent majesty of Ravel's orchestration...
...Amid the clamor of banging potlids, whirling noisemakers and stamping feet, Harvard's Jewish community celebrated the holiday of Purim Thursday night at Phillips Brooks House and the Harvard Hillel Society...
...considerable power over defense spending, and his weekly presence at White House legislative conferences with Eisenhower gave him input into policy. He also served on a very small, almost unknown committee that was supposed to watch over the Central Intelligence Agency. Although Saltonstall takes issue with the increasing clamor for more open hearings on CIA activities, and says the CIA always answered his questions, he admits that often he didn't known precisely what...
...mental institutions, harassed in a dozen ways, ranging from merely annoying to brutal. But Soviet dissidents call press conferences, circulate forbidden books and manuscripts, bombard Washington, Paris and the Vatican with their protests. As soon as one of their number is arrested, wives, children and friends set up a clamor. Sakharov is almost a tourist attraction in Moscow, and regularly receives foreign newsmen. None of this would have been conceivable under Stalin...