Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revelation that President Lyndon Johnson has ordered thousands of additional American troops into the struggle. At the same time the war took on a new dimension with increasing talk of carrying it to the home ground of the principal force behind the battling: Communist North Viet Nam. The loudest calls for such a move have come from the man on whom Washington has desperately placed its chips in Viet Nam: Major General Nguyen Khanh, the moonfaced, goateed, 36-year-old career officer who seized power six months...
There is a lot of honey in the HARYOU-ACT pot, though, and the politicians are already buzzing around it like bumblebees. Buzzing loudest is Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, who threatens to hamstring the venture unless he is given veto power over the choice of its executive director. The issue remains to be settled, but even if the program is not pork-barreled dry, it will be a long time in producing tangible results...
...kite flying," snapped Diefenbaker. When Pearson revealed in the House that the government is making a study of the growing secessionist pressures in French Quebec and how secession would affect Canada economically, Diefenbaker all but accused him of plotting secession and forced embarrassed attempts to "clarify." The loudest and longest hassle erupted last May when Pearson proposed a new maple leaf national flag to replace the Red Ensign. "Flags," roared Diefenbaker, "cannot be imposed on the Canadian people by the simple, capricious personal choice of the Prime Minister! His personal choice will divide the nation." And with help from Diefenbaker...
...Loudest complaints come from Bremen, Europe's busiest cotton exchange...
...Loudest skeptics are Europe's leftists, who will not be dissuaded from their original conviction that Marxist Lee Harvey Oswald was the unwitting tool or the scapegoat of some well-oiled, darker rightist conspiracy, and then was silenced by Jack Ruby. This impression was fed by the bad assumptions made by many reporters and commentators in the first minutes after the assassination in conservative Dallas, and it has never been fully erased. "The American press," declared Italy's left-wing magazine Vie Nuove in a recent issue, "has forgotten its glorious tradition of truth and democracy, playing along...