Word: clamourous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a new junta in power, Greece is still in the news and the clamour goes on in the United States. After the overthrow of the Papadopoulos regime, Senators Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) and Clairborne Pell (D-R.I.) introduced a bill in the Senate: "To prohibit all military assistance to Greece until it is determined that Greece is fulfilling its obligations under the North Atlantic Treaty...
...Union's clamour is no more than a sham exercise in righteouseness. Tiny numbers of graduate students, less than a tenth of those at Harvard, voted to march out on strike if and when they can persuade another tenth to do likewise. Their exhortations attack a litany of alleged abuses--determination of spouse and parental income in judging scholarship need, preservation of awards based on merit, and refusal to recognize the Union as sole agent for grad students. Such complaints amount to no more, it appears, than a continuation of the great "Gimme" game of the sixties, in which...