Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic crisis demands political courage as well as political expediency. If the divided Labor Party remains too paralyzed to provide strong leadership, the fainthearted cry for a coalition government that was being raised at week's end by top Tories and the press may become an irresistible clamor...
...small and simple thing, this last film by the late Vittorio De Sica. Clara (Florinda Bolkan) is a poor, feverishly depressed and angry woman, the sole support of a numerous, ne'er-do-well family. One day she collapses in the heat and clamor of the factory, where she works at the hardest but best-paying job. The doctor at the clinic to which she reluctantly reports diagnoses her fever as something more than a metaphor; it is a symptom of tuberculosis. Over the objections of husband and in-laws, she goes to the state-supported sanatorium...
...Daingerfield Perry of the Massachusetts Council on Crime and Correction criticized law-makers for giving in to "political pressures exerted by special interest groups who are organized and react with much clamor and in large numbers...
...clamor continued until one member of a religious party remarked. "None of this would have happened if only Feder had gone to eat at a kosher restaurant in Geneva."SHULAMIT ALONI: "We're strong enough to risk some steps towards peace...
...Controls. The difficulties the automakers are having with Government safety and pollution regulations are a prime consequence of that flaw. For years the auto companies did not take seriously enough the rising clamor for greater car safety and less polluting engines. As a result, Government moved in and imposed stiffer standards than might have been necessary if the companies had acted voluntarily...