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Word: hubbub (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hubbub of Washington, said Alice Roosevelt Longworth, "I'm privileged. I occupy a position of malevolent detachment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Women at Work | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

...third major liberisation of the rules in two decades, and the fifth controversy over them in that same period. Previous changes were made in 1931 and 1941; there were discussions in those years and in 1936 and 1946. There is therefore no way to account for this year's hubbub but to assume that the parietal cycle, like everything else in the world, has speeded...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: Rules On Women Guests Face Periodic Crises | 12/9/1950 | See Source »

...occurred to me while reading your article that all of this hubbub about flying saucers started a long time ago. Didn't the Bible record that Ezekiel saw the wheel-way up in the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 8, 1950 | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...plane from Bratislava an American passenger, Katherine Kosmak, USIS librarian in Prague, noticed nothing amiss until the pilot began to circle for a landing. Then she heard a woman remark: "Oh, this isn't Prague." On the field below were U.S. military planes. In a hubbub of surprise and alarm, the liner rolled out, taxied up to the line. U.S. officers yanked open the hatch, yelled: "Get out, get out! No one is going to be hurt. You are in Munich. One of your pilots doesn't like Czechoslovakia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Mutiny in the Air Lanes | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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