Word: brouhahas
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When word reached Leopoldville of Tshombe's detention, Congolese gendarmes laid siege to the Egyptian and Algerian embassies in the heart of the city by way of retaliation, cutting off food and phone service. All this set off a diplomatic brouhaha that ended only when Tshombe telephoned from Cairo two days later with word that as soon as the Egyptian and Algerian diplomats were released and had reached haven in Brazzaville across the river, Nasser would spring Tshombe. Escorted out of Leopoldville by Nigerian troops under U.N. command, the embassy staffs loaded three car ferries with everything from refrigerators...
...brouhaha had barely begun. In his first heat, Korean War Ace (seven MIGs) Bob Love averaged 410 m.p.h. -only to be placed third for cutting over three pylons, completely missing another. Then California's Darryl Greenameyer won his first heat, beating Slovak by 10 m.p.h.-and disqualified himself by landing on Reno's paved runway instead of Stead's dirt. Not that Greenameyer didn't try. Stripped of practically everything, including landing flaps, his silver Bearcat hippity-hopped all over the runway until he frantically poured on the power and took off again. Landing safely...
...since the summer games of 1956, when the Hungarians and Russians tried to kill each other in a water polo match, has an Olympics produced so much brouhaha. Dutch speed-skating officials complained that a Swedish referee had the ice shaved at strategic moments-thereby helping Jonny Nilsson (a Swede) win the men's 10,000 meters. Americans spent $4 to file an official protest when Austrian skiers were allowed to study the men's giant slalom course in comfort, by walking it downhill. (Everybody else had to trudge uphill.) German fans screamed "Schiebung! Schiebung!" ("Fix! Fix!") when...
...marauding Brown University students to congeneric Pembroke College. Said Dean Rosemary Pierell: "It's the first time in 16 years that a horde of Brown men has managed to reach the upper floors of a Pembroke dormitory." It took Providence police with Birmingham-type dogs to quell the brouhaha elsewhere in town. Eight Brown rioters were arrested, but the chief injuries were sustained by two policemen and a bystander. One cop was hit with a rock and the other suffered the unkindest cut of all: he was bitten...
...priced accountants to get around taxes even if he does not evade them. The Internal Revenue Service believes that the whole tax structure needs a complete overhaul, and the Kennedy Administration has promised to present a tax-reform bill to Congress-one that promises to set off a mighty brouhaha. Meanwhile, the IRS, like the taxpayer himself, is bound to the existing tax rules-and loopholes...