Word: howling
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Soon the Dresden press began to howl that her dances were un-Nordic. Wigman moved on to Leipzig, was still dancing a little, teaching a little, when the Russians found her. Russian reporters interviewed her and respectfully printed her opinions on the dance, but obviously still preferred their own graceful classic ballet to Wigman's somewhat gymnastic, angular and austere style. Russian authorities readily gave her permission to go on lecture tours and to reopen her school. The time has come, she announced last week, to start building the great, warming fire...
There was a shakeup in the Paris police over I'affaire Mufti, and Britain's Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was sufficiently disturbed by it to order an investigation of his intelligence service. Mr. Bevin was already disturbed by a howl of anger from the U.S. which followed a remark of his at Bournemouth: that the U.S. wanted the 100,000 Jews in Palestine "because they did not want too many of them in New York...
Then Pauley retired to a Seoul hospital to be treated for dysentery. Army leaders in Korea read Pauley's report, let out an outraged howl. For nine months they had been gleaning information about North Korean factory removal from stories told by refugees. Much of their data dovetailed and had been checked and rechecked. How, they asked, could Pauley's report, after five days of guided wandering, be accepted in the light of their carefully prepared evidence? They remembered that, while Pauley was still in the Russian zone, his mission headquarters in Seoul had complained he "was operating...
...Then the howl set in-from churchmen, clubwomen, and from bookies and slot-machine operators, who naturally preferred the present system, under which they pay graft but get a larger take themselves. Mayor Morrison would have given the suckers a better break...
...ferns and her bloomers all over the place, was rather wearing for some readers of Margery Sharp's popular novel; but Jennifer Jones does her proud. Charles Boyer wastes his talents like a gentleman, and Una O'Connor, without a line to her name, is a howl...