Word: clamoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deal with its foreign problems, its tempo in domestic matters seems slower and less specified. During the week, Nixon let it be known that he would recommend overhaul-though not outright abolition-of the Electoral College system. He said that he favored tax reforms designed to meet mounting congressional clamor for closing some of the loopholes that allow many of the very rich to live entirely taxfree. He has been in close touch with Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and the most powerful man in Congress on fiscal matters...
...least ten months to bring a man to trial. And the longer the accused is free, the stronger the chance that he will be arrested again. Senator Ervin has argued that if the time between arrest and trial lasted only from six to eight weeks, there would be no clamor for preventive detention. Even those who favor the idea believe a man should be detained for only a limited time-which would mean that the courts would have to provide quicker trials anyway...
...grown into an organization of 232 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches with a total constituency of more than 300 million people. Yet its ecumenical mission of Christian unity is increasingly taking second place to more pressing problems: the demands for social and economic justice by underdeveloped countries; the rising ,clamor of young churchmen for a greater voice in ecclesiastical policymaking; the drift of many dissident believers into "underground" worship, imperiling the very foundations of the institutional church...
...these days, filled with the clamor over ROTC and over the larger issue of student power in the University, I run the risk of seeming trivial in broaching the subject that I do. Yet I think that the Harvard-Radcliffe bus is an issue which holds large enough practical significance for a large enough number of us that it should not be allowed to die without at least some arguments in its favor...
...Your "Thanksgiving 1968: Mixed Blessings" [Nov. 29] commentary upon the American scene is far, far too optimistic. The materialistic clamor all about us has just about stilled the human spirit, and the only way the human spirit can now be heard above this deadening din is by way of dissent, protest and demonstration-peaceful and violent...