Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adding the voices of 17 smaller nations to those of the Big Four had not wrought miraculous reconciliations. It had increased the size of the meetings, padded out the votes, added to the clamor. (Yugoslavia, for example, sounded more intransigent than the Kremlin on the subject of Trieste.) Russia, which had not liked the idea of a 21-nation conference in the first place, had used it as a rostrum from which to warn the world against Anglo-U.S. domination, and to accuse the U.S. of profiting at the expense of war-torn Europe. But if temperamental optimists...
...answered that he was there to denounce the highly touted project of the new French union incorporated in the constitution as "codifying a new colonialism as dangerous as the colonialism of yesterday. The colonial policy of France was one of the principal sores of the Third Republic." An angry clamor broke out in the Chamber. Some rightist and center deputies stalked out in indignation. Others, including MRP President Maurice Schumann, bolted from their seats toward the speaker in a menacing fashion, shouting insults as they came. Algerian followers of Abbas got ready to join the seemingly inevitable melee...
...give timely aid & comfort to the miscellaneous followers of Henry A. Wallace and others of their ilk abroad, thus stirring up a popular clamor to make Western Governments appease Russia further...
Education ranks third in importance as a problem to be met by the students of the University if one is to make a judgment solely on the audible clamor raised by the students themselves. Housing and prices continue to be the chief worry-makers among the candidates for Harvard degrees...
...neighboring area of national defense Congress fell short of the mark-and reflected the will of the people in the process. By its clamor to bring the boys home it forced a nervous War Department to pull down its Army: it buried a universal-military-training law under the woodshed; it stripped away the strength of the Draft...