Word: howling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promptly Bendix emitted a howl of protest which could be boiled down to five words: we are too damned busy. Just this year the company got through with one ten-month investigation by the Attorney General's office which consumed 1,100 days of Bendix officials' time, involved 25,000 pages of documents from their files, ended in a Federal grand jury's returning no indictment. With a civil suit threatened, the company negotiated for a consent decree, seemed on the point of getting one when, it claims, Arnold made a further stipulation: Bendix must give licenses...
...trouble. Chief controversy raged over one of Eberstadt's appointments: Thomas R. Armstrong, a Standard Oil Co. of N.J. executive, to be chief of his foreign-requirements liaison branch. Because Armstrong was connected in Latin American minds with the fight against Mexico's oil expropriation a howl went up from the State Department, from the Board of Economic Warfare, from Nelson A. Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs...
Every single time your integrity is questioned, you howl as if the sky had been plucked away from the earth. Don't you see that that makes it look as if the thing were justified? Every single time the President or anyone else points out where you have been off the job, we get jab, jab, jab into our President who, whatever you may say about him, has a big job on his hands and really needs the help of all of us, just as much as the Army, the Navy and the war industries...
...long ago you blasted Congress loud and long, and we all thought, "There is justice now and then, regardless of the old proverb." When your turn comes, you howl like kindergarten kids, till the country is persuaded that that is what...
Then Willkie got back to his topic: "The one contribution that I want to make is to howl and howl that all nations must be free to seek their own just aspirations. Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and I are going to howl for the right kind of world when this war is over...