Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...internationally damned for his part in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. In 1927 at the request of Massachusetts' worried Governor Alvan T. Fuller, LowelLand two others* reviewed the trial of the two anarchists, declared them fairly judged and, in effect, sent them to the electric chair amid worldwide uproar...
...Good Will. Above the heavy tread of nations on the march, above the staccato uproar of the battlefields, only a few men of peace were heard...
Somewhere behind the German lines, Erwin Rommel listened with grim interest to the uproar of British guns and high-domed Albert Kesselring, who designed the bombing of Coventry, brooded over his less than adequate African Luftwaffe. Somewhere behind the Allied lines, tall, affable "Mars" Coningham, R.A.F. chief in the field, guided the performance of his planes. Near by, in a desert caravan, the tough, ubiquitous Bernard Montgomery kept his finger on every unit of the strongest Eighth Army any British general has yet commanded in the long desert campaign...
Commemorating Gandhi's month-old arrest, hundreds of his followers, choking under a tear-gas barrage, lay prone or squatted in Bombay streets. But although Gandhi's movement was spreading, the Raj persisted in pretending that it had suppressed the demonstrations and averted greater uproar. The danger, increasing week by week, was that the full fury of India's disorder would burst when dry war weather in late September and October* adds its welcome to Japanese invaders...
...Opposition demand this week that Colonel Drew's letter be made public threw the House of Commons into an uproar. Amid wild shouts and cries of "order, order," Mackenzie King called the Conservative party "a mob" and defied them to silence his defense of the Government...