Word: clamorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, got so tired of the great sleuth that he had wicked Professor Moriarty shove him over a waterfall, restored him to life only after a public clamor. Humorist Stephen Leacock also tried his hand at rubbing Sherlock out: he put him on all fours, entered him as a dachshund in an international dog show, and had him painlessly destroyed for not having a dog license...
...Gloucestershire countryside and its tradition-swathed hunters. When he saw a fox slinking toward his master's chicken house one day last week, Roger took up a shotgun and blasted the beast. Before the echoes died away, there was a clatter of hoofs, a clamor of hounds, and up rode the local hunt. The hunters stared aghast at Roger's atrocity. They were speechless. Not so Roger's employer...
This purge produced a hubbub on the Catholic intellectual left that for a while drowned out the clamor over the worker-priests themselves. One Catholic review hinted that "the influence of Cardinal Spellman and his friend McCarthy" was responsible. In another Catholic journal, a priest wrote that "we are not obliged to believe that Rome's decisions are made out of pure and lofty motives." Gaullist Senator Edmond Michelet demanded that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault "call the attention of the Holy See to the regrettable consequences which our country's prestige might suffer throughout the world...
...that, while police officers who use the "third degree" find it advisable to do their illegal work in secret, the Congressional inquisitors flaunt their tortures before the public eye and ear as they try, in the words of the Report, "to win applause by producing a victim when popular clamor demands the solution of a crime...
Just before sunrise, a great procession, led by naked, ash-smeared holy men and gold-caparisoned elephants, trod solemnly toward the winter stream in a clamor of conch shells and cymbals. With ritual reverence, the first pilgrims rubbed the water into their skin and their eyes, then drank it. They believed from their scripture legends that they might thereby speed to Nirvana and be spared the pain of countless rebirths in man's universe...