Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tremendous appetite for the feast of peace it saw ahead-but it suffered from gas on the stomach. The belly-rumblings last week were audible. Labor yelled: "Fascism!" Management yelled: "Socialism!" Homesick G.I.s made unsoldierly uproar around the world (see ARMY & NAVY), and the prestige of the U.S. Army went down like a falling star, carrying the nation's prestige with...
...high command, harried by the uproar from civilian and soldier, had never told them exactly what the score was on the time they must serve. The demobilization machinery had sometimes operated in strange ways that no one could adequately explain...
...Brebner, are "stupid"-most Canadian scholars and teachers are paid so little "that a very large proportion of their potential usefulness is continuously being poured down the sewer of . . . drudgery and hackwork for other income." Thus they yield quickly when American universities and laboratories beckon. "One can predict the uproar in the press and parliaments of Canada if the United States tried to buy a single Canadian island. . . . But the never-ending loss of scholars passes without comment...
...home, the uproar was augmented by understandably yearning relatives, and by others of more distant and dubious kin ship. The leftist National Maritime Union called a nationwide one-day strike to dramatize a pious demand for more troop ships. The Communist Daily Worker, in a front-page editorial, explained that the strike was called "in the name of the American people to get [G.I. Joe] home and prevent his use in imperialist intervention...
There was less unity but even more uproar among people about to be evicted for the parkway project; a radical faction which wanted to march on the City Hall was at swords' points with conservatives who just wanted another place to park their beds...