Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knows what the Ego is-and so do I. The Ego is a ferocity for identification that exists in all of us. Deeper than our lusts and all our other good and bad hungers, is this obsession we have, to be Some One. . . . We clamor to acquire a meaning, to participate, however humbly, in the world of ideas and events; to hold opinions that will make us significant. . . to lift ourselves out of a herd-loneliness that eternally engulfs...
...eloquent, nervous French voice last week gave an answer to the clamor of crisis. The answer: De Gaulle. It was a startling new voice in the Gaullist camp. André Malraux, once one of Communism's most stirring defenders, had become De Gaulle's pressagent. The story of his metamorphosis reflects the mental tribulations of many Europeans, less articulate than Malraux, in the great crisis of their civilization...
Abbott grinned as the House roared, and waited patiently for the clamor to subside to let him explain some of his reasoning. The middle-income brackets had been given the most careful consideration because they include so many people on fixed salaries, who have gained least in the economic expansion since 1939. Also, they include young men in science, business and the professions who are most readily lost...
...Government to blame? Harry Truman jumped into the argument. His hands were not spotless. He had encouraged Labor to clamor for higher wages after V-J day. At the same time, he tried to keep prices hammer-locked. The paradox stalled production. Like most politicians, he had bowed before the sacred idol of support for farm prices, which would keep a floor under food costs until...
...more heartaches locally than Ted Weems's recording ever dreamed of. The disc jockey, having access to twelve million pairs of ears via the ether waves, nightly pleads for each listener to write you to put his name in TIME. . . . Unless you do something soon to stop the clamor in the local press and radio station, you may expect an express collect package to arrive in your office soon. . . . It's my radio I'm. sending...