Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general, Bios believes parents should set limits, affirm their personal values, deny the "clamor for grown-up status," and refuse to be intimidated by charges of authoritarianism. That is bound to cause family tensions, he says, but antagonism between parent and adolescent is normal and even necessary. Without conflict, Bios believes, there is no growth...
...write their memoirs. Refreshed, the Maestro fills in the yawning hours before dinner with a dozen portraits. The omelette palpitates under his fork, unable to believe its luck. It, too, will be converted into a Picasso. A green, nocturnal silence reigns in the garden, broken only by the muffled clamor of Greek shipping millionaires stuffing $1,000 bills through the letter box in the hope that Picasso will draw on one of them. But the day is over...
...from that stand. For one thing, a court test of the ban on wage raises negotiated prior to the presidential freeze?the provision that unions dislike most?might well take longer than 90 days. A more embarrassing reason for the retreat was the absence, so far, of any significant clamor against the freeze on the part of rank-and-file union members...
...years the families were largely ignored in the clamor of a widening war. Then, with the decision to withdraw from Indochina, release of the prisoners became a major issue. After an unsuccessful rescue raid on a deserted prison camp at Son Tay last November, the families closed ranks behind the Nixon Administration's insistence that freeing the P.O.W.s was the necessary first item for negotiating a peace in Southeast Asia. But since then, disenchantment and frustration have somewhat eroded the President's support among P.O.W. wives and parents. Following Hanoi's latest proposal, which seemingly offers release...
...jury subpoenas were issued to men convinced they were safe from such summonses. The high-rolling lifestyle they enjoyed was sharply straitened by Internal Revenue Service agents, who carefully checked any discrepancies between reported income and visible spending. Most of the scrutiny was the result of a growing public clamor for a curb on Mob activity?not Joe Colombo's public posturing. But Mafia chieftains blamed him nonetheless, and at least one prominent Mafioso believed that Colombo and the league had netted him a grand jury subpoena...