Word: brouhaha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senate, from Dar es Salaam to New Delhi. The brouhaha stems from U.S. plans to upgrade a small naval and communications station on the island into a $55 million base to support U.S. naval forces in the Indian Ocean...
Walking into such a pizzicato brouhaha merely seemed to strengthen Barlow's resolve. Tristan, it turns out, is in her tea leaves or, rather, the numerology she is fascinated by. It was the first opera she ever attended, a Met performance with Astrid Varnay. When Barlow sang the role the first time herself, it was in Kiel, Germany, in 1967, and the singer she replaced was, of course, Varnay...
...runs in the five games. The asthenic Met batters, none of whom finished the regular season above .300, banged out a hearty 23 runs. Met Shortstop Bud Harrelson (155 Ibs.) miraculously escaped maiming when his scuffle with Cincinnati's Pete Rose (189 Ibs.) blossomed into the best-watched brouhaha since the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Rose later escaped injury at the hands of garbage-throwing Mets fans...
Last week's crises began with a brouhaha involving the armed forces. In Chile, unlike most other Latin American countries, the military has traditionally avoided involvement in politics. But recently Allende took leaders of the three armed forces into his Cabinet. Now military men are moving in and out in a revolving-door scene reminiscent of a Marx Brothers' movie. The first to spin was Air Force Commander in Chief General Cesar Ruiz Danyau. His job as Public Works Minister was to end the month-old strike of 40,000 owner-drivers of the trucks on which...
...aside in a dissent; but since that is the view of the court's most liberally activist member, it seems possible that the Supreme Court might decline to rule on "Nixon v the Ervin Committee," rather than turn matters into a three-way separation-of-powers brouhaha. That is, unless Ervin can make stick his contention that Congress has the same powers as a court in probing illegal White House activities, or unless he can force a criminal contempt-of-Congress charge to be brought...