Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortage of available tickets and a temporary undergraduate financial recession after mid-winter frolics has led student opera-lovers to clamor for the parts of extras in "Carmen" and "Aida," productions of which are scheduled for March 20 and 22 at the Opera House...
...that a "friendless, helpless stranger" had been jailed for a very poor reason: withholding her identity. Manhattan papers took up the cry. Attorney James A. Major of the American Civil Liberties Union demanded that she be given a new trial. Offers of money, clothes and jobs poured in. The clamor got too loud for the sensitive ears of judge and prosecutor...
...TIME have its editorial tongue in cheek when reporting "Playing the Angles" [Oct. 21]? Are . . . readers to assume that American citizens have become so completely demoralized that they must court dishonesty in a thriving black market, must lie, cheat and connive in their frenetic clamor for meat, soap and automobiles, and disown their offspring to obtain an apartment? . . . Not only have we an ample supply of meat, but thousands of Canadians are donating meat coupons to the Canadian Meat Board to help feed the starving Europeans. . . . I have no wish to be smug, but surely if Canada...
Amid the popular clamor for a quick peace and an end to bickering, the sharper observers saw plainly that if the U.S. and Britain had not been frank and firm and patient with Russia in the Allied Control Council for Germany and on the Eastern European treaties, the chances of an enduring German settlement would be slimmer than they...
Although the clamor on the subject has temporarily died down, "The Tech" asserted that it had by no means finished with the issue...