Word: louder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next the Foreign Office demanded maintenance of the status quo in French Indo-China-i.e., no one should take it but Japan, not even Japan's friends Germany and Italy. Louder & louder grew the cry among extreme nationalists in Tokyo that Japan should occupy and "protect" the territory, and thus snip both outside intervention and the China supply line...
...More and louder boos. Cries of "Sit down...
...Louder than campus words spoke campus actions. Throughout the land schools busied themselves with preparations for war. Incidents...
...Crimson's stand on American Neutrality this spring has not been an easy one to uphold. With every German victory in Europe the cry against un Americanism has grown louder. The President now has declared America's "non-belligerency." The pressure groups of 1917 have marshalled their strength, with his explicit approval, and the college presidents and prominent citizens have joined the newspapers in the campaign "of education...
...career and one unworthy of a wartime Prime Minister. For the rest of the afternoon and far into the evening he sat and listened to critics who, beginning with Labor Leader Attlee and ending with insurgent Conservative Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery, became more & more insistent that he resign. Louder grew the applause with each new attack on the Government. But the greatest ovation of the day went to long-dead Oliver Cromwell, with whose angry words to the Long Parliament of 1640-53 Insurgent Amery closed his speech...