Word: foofaraws
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...skin seems just about as light as Actor Ferrer's, the audience may justifiably wonder if the question itself is not almost academic. Anyway, black boy gets white girl-or seems to. But then in the confusing finish (which was reshot after a big front-office foofaraw), all three wander off together hand in hand-with the girl in the middle...
...Yaleman William Buckley Jr. kicked up a noisy foofaraw with his God and Man at Yale, which accused Old Eli of subverting both capitalism and Christianity. Later, Patricia Buckley published an article in The Freeman accusing Vassar of having a leftish tinge. In a letter to her fellow alumnae, Aloise made much the same charge against Smith. U.S. higher education managed to survive-but it will not soon forget the Buckleys...
...feature of the foofaraw was that there was no mystery about this "breach of security." In Tokyo Aireview Publisher Jin Imai calmly explained that his staff had merely pieced together specifications of the F-100 just as any good newsman-or intelligence officer-would. After the F-100 was announced 20 months ago, Aireview wrote to North American Aviation, Inc. in California for information about its prize fighter plane...
...Illinois legislative committee, after a year probing the foofaraw over krebiozen (TIME, Nov. 26, 1951), concluded that none of the embattled and embittered parties has done wrong. It urged a further, impartial trial of the mysterious horse serum for cancer cases...
French theologians who showed signs of straying from traditional Thomism. But priests in overalls are different, and the Vatican's recent decision to withdraw them from their factories and filling stations set off a foofaraw of petition-drafting, letter-signing and complaining that the church was abandoning the worker...