Word: booed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whistles & Boos. With true Gallic instinct for the wrong moment, the National Assembly last week thrust its own challenge at De Gaulle-almost as if to show that it was not moved by the assassination attempt. Since last April, the Assembly had chafed under the constitution's Article 16, which gave De Gaulle power to brush aside the debates of the Deputies as "Fourth Republic games" and run France as he pleased. To protest against De Gaulle's emergency powers, the Assembly chose a purely technical issue. De Gaulle's Premier Michel Debre bluntly refused a special...
Nikita Khrushchev scattered them with one loud boo and the remote thunder of atomic explosion deep inside Russia. After that, it was every neutralist for himself, and the Conference of the Nonaligned Nations was soon lined up in splinters tremulously blown one way or the other. Yugoslavia's President Tito condemned France for failing "to comply with the resolutions of the United Nations on the discontinuance of atomic tests." He was willing to forgive Russia, "because we can understand the reasons adduced by the government of the U.S.S.R." Indonesia's Sukarno and Ghana's Nkrumah echoed Tito...
...worry about, let alone fear. Wage earners were enjoying record employment; their shopping mums were still savoring the longest stretch of prosperity since the war. Labor leader after labor leader has gone on record for another round of wage increases this summer. On the surface, everything seemed tickety-boo, as vacationers crowded the beaches from Brighton to Belfast...
...manufacturers, as usual, insisted on shrouding the new models in secrecy, so as to get the utmost response from buyers during the fall unveilings. But here and there, they allowed a glimpse: a peek-a-boo of a Lark in the woods, a new Plymouth wrapped in bedsheets. In general, the new models' intermediate size is a compromise that offers greater inside roominess with reasonable outside dimensions-very much, in fact, like the cars of a decade ago. Having found that buyers insist on all kinds of fancy extras (Chevy's 1961 Corvair got off to a slow...
...They Know. Milwaukee club officials no longer worry about spectator reaction. Said one: "At first they didn't know whether they should shout, or just clap politely, or boo or what. Now they know." They have yet to toss beer bottles (Schlitz is sold during games), but as the home team was getting trimmed (12-6) by the Boca Raton (Fla.) Royal Palms, when Captain Uihlein overrode the ball, one grandstand customer bellowed: "You bum! I don't care if this is your backyard! Why don't you take your bats and balls and go home...