Word: fracases
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Sculptor Lipchitz himself was far from the scene of the fracas, working at home in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. When he heard the news, the fierce, brilliant old Frenchman grinned like a turtle. "How touched I am," he said. "How warm in my heart."
Kelly's last appearance, exactly four years ago last night, precipitated the famous "Pogo for President" riot which followed his talk and found Harvard Square filled with over 1,500 chanting students and a large number of free-swinging Cambridge police. Twenty-eight students were arrested, and others charged police...
At this he would set up a clamor for "Rowbottom!" and other students, awakened from slumber, would fling open their windows and echo the cry, so that the sound sleeper's name, though he had long since moved on, has been immortalized on the Penn campus ever since: It takes...
The fracas in the Senate quickly ricocheted to the Agriculture Department, 14 blocks away. There, after five hours of checking the facts, Benson's staff sheepishly invited the press in. The Secretary was away in the country, but an aide read a statement from him. He had not read...
Unfortunately, the press has played up the issue of "political" control of the military establishment. This is not relevant to the present fracas. Civilians do and should have the last word in determining military policy. But before that last word is spoken, every responsible voice should be heard. Ridgway's...