Word: dustup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both Carlucci and a U.S. military aide might well have been lynched if Tally had not arrived in time in her little blue sports car. Another time, she was on the spot in Leopoldville when Congolese troops seized three American newsmen (including TIME'S Lee Griggs) during a dustup with U.N. troops...
...dustup soon spread to the U.S. Office of Pipeline Safety in Washington, which dutifully sent an investigator to Collinsville. Though the agent found nothing amiss. Baker remains unconvinced. He has now challenged pipeline companies' right to burrow on private property, a move that could have national repercussions for the pipeline industry. If the local hearings go against him, Baker says he will appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. His obstinacy has not come cheap; legal costs already have reached nearly $10,000; a Supreme Court appeal could run $3,000 to $5,000 more. But Baker intends...
...getting into an unanticipated revolution. Nobody seems to grasp the degree to which people are fed up." Rhodes' rhetoric notwithstanding, it is up to the whole commission to ascertain who is fed up with whom, and it is still possible that this fall will bring dialogue instead of a dustup...