Word: ado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were selected who could "get the votes.' In other words, the nominating committee's ideas as tow ho could get the votes seem to be the controlling factor in this election. Therefore, why not dispense with the election entirely and let the nominating committee appoint its favorites without further ado...
...rule, he kept an anti-Wafdist, Ali Maher Pasha. Under the new King, Ali Maher was appointed to the Senate and Premier Mustafa Nahas Pasha and his Wafdists hoped they could maintain a monopoly as bestowers of royal advice. Two months ago strong-willed Farouk, without ado, plucked Ali Maher from the Senate and reinstalled him as royal adviser. Premier Nahas protested volubly. Wafdist Blue-shirts, a semimilitary student branch of the party, clashed with pro-Farouk student groups in the streets of Cairo. Farouk remained adamant...
...possible at press conference. Last week, the biggest press conference since the President announced his plan for enlarging the Supreme Court was on hand when he started out by saying that he knew exactly what the newspapermen wanted to ask and was prepared to answer for quotation. Without more ado, the President read a prepared statement...
...nudges in the bottom of a barge. As Diver Brown prepared for his first descent, Newport called an unofficial holiday. Lining the shore were hundreds of out-of-towners munching Farmer Bateman's barbecued goat sandwiches and sipping his cold drinks. A loudspeaker was erected and after much ado on the great morning, Diver Brown went down into the swirling river, rendered muddier than usual by recent rains. He reported that visibility was only three inches, came up after 75 minutes of fumbling around. In the afternoon he descended again, returned with no report. Far into the night spectators...
...gradually decreasing doses and when these have tapered off to zero the patient is forcibly tattooed with a mark saying he has been "cured." If a Chinese thus tattooed is again picked up for drug indulgence by the police, they have the privilege of executing him without further ado. In many Chinese cities these executions take place from time to time in small or large batches, depending on the success of relatives of the backsliders in persuading (with cash) the police not to shoot them...