Word: clamorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special 50-ft. trailer flashed from every screen, 20,000 posters lobbied in theater lobbies, 40,000 stickers bristled on box-office windows, millions of petitions and postcards flooded the land for forwarding to Congress. The clamor echoed on the radio and in the press. To a public that wants to pay less for its entertainment, the trailer offered this catchline: "You have just paid 20% more for your ticket because of the federal nuisance...
What, the Congressmen demanded to know, did the Joint Chiefs of Staff think about it? When Acheson refused to speak for them, Senator Tom Connally, Democratic chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee, yielded to Republican clamor and agreed to call Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs. "I don't care one way or another," groused Texas Tom. "I'm agreeing to let them come in in order to give relief to these other gentlemen...
Come Out? An hour and a half later, the bloodhounds set up a great bass clamor outside a potato shack on the farm of ex-Moonshiner Turner's father. Hogjaw, who likes to boast that he can outrun a horse, was right with the dogs, but the main body of cops all saw fit to maintain a respectful distance and await eventualities. Hogjaw pulled his gun, fired six shots into the shack and bravely bawled: "Come out, you sons of bitches...