Word: clamorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clamdiggers and bootblacks set up a clamor at this, and eventually, through effective lobbying, were exempted under the law; so were policemen and firemen seeking in order that they could hold Sunday parades. The law has suffered many similar modifications and encroachments in the last 260 years, some of which are not easily explained. The distinction between clamdigging and seaweed gathering is a fine one, and it is difficult to see why it is illegal to play golf but not miniature golf...
...Delacroix depicted the Good Knight Amadis de Gaule (whose exploits took him from Britain to Constantinople) as he strides, plumes tossing, to greet the Princess Olga, after he and his companions have forced the castle of treacherous Galpen. Banners wave, steel clashes on steel, the air is loud with clamor, even the sky is turbulent...
Recorded end to end, all of the gags about old British movies on U.S. television would be no more than a beep compared to the clamor going on last week about U.S. shows on British TV. "Is BBC short of British ideas?" screamed London's weekly The People. "The latest American import [the Phil Silvers Show] plunged us into the heart of U.S. Army life, and as the series is here to stay, we've just got to get used to the slang. A pity the B (for British) BC can't devise a British series...
...thought a few moments, then said quietly: "I don't think that is it." To the President's way of thinking, clamor on Capitol Hill illustrated a simple maxim: "American politics is a history of a clash of ideas." But he was not averse to voicing some clashing budget-area sentiments of his own: "We have got to adapt the great principles of the Constitution to the inescapable industrial and economic conditions of our time, and make certain that our country is secure, and our people participate in the progress of our economy...
...unprecedented cut -that -budget clamor heard lately on Capitol Hill and across the nation is sweet music to Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd, the No. 1 applegrower in the U.S. and the Mr. Economy of the U.S. Senate. For a decade Democrat Byrd has faithfully worked out each year a picked-clean "Byrd budget," always a lot smaller than the one submitted by the President, whether Democrat or Republican. Last week bouncy, apple-cheeked Harry Byrd, 69, unwrapped his fiscal 1958 budget, proposed to pluck a total of $6.5 billion from the $71.8 billion proposed by President Eisenhower...