Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...available. Kirk proposed that Parliament use its limited authority to question the EEC budget and set up a permanent commission to examine the accounts of all Common Market institutions. As he put it, "Initiatives are not given but seized. By these means this Parliament will live and people will clamor to be represented...
...reader's temperament is revealed, a temperament at once impatient and imbued with languor, undiscipfiined and ordered. It conspires to receive all ideas as echoes of other ideas, on a diachronic level. In other words, whenever the reader happens to notice an idea which resonates through time, associations clamor like heirs to be recognized, and a number of them receive admittance...
Blooper Snoopers. To quiet the growing clamor of consumer complaints, retailers are hiring more and more people to examine incoming merchandise. Kay Campbell's used to have salesclerks send back defective clothes once a season; now a full-time inspector examines each garment as it is received. Joseph Magnin has taken on four quality controllers in California and one on New York's Seventh Ave., where most women's wear originates. In the past year, the company has dropped ten suppliers that had repeatedly shipped faulty goods...
...Gibran boom started in the '50s, however, committee membership suddenly became a source of political power. Any goatherd who sought assistance from the estate became politically indebted to the member who sponsored him. And financial kickbacks were not unheard of either. Soon families split apart in the clamor to win a committee position. Age-old feuds gained new fury, and at least two deaths resulted. Ultimately the two largest families-each with about 1,500 members-set up rival committees...
...jeopardy, Senator Henry Jackson has offered an antibusing amendment that would guarantee "freedom of choice to attend neighborhood schools." The other Democratic contenders have refused to endorse a constitutional ban against busing, but have taken increasingly hostile questioning from audiences for their stand. One Republican Senator noted the growing clamor against busing and predicted massive resistance to it. Said he: "If you keep stoking these fires, there's a serious question whether you can enforce the court orders. We would have a serious problem of civil disobedience...