Word: hubbub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More Ammunition. On the congressional front, the safety hubbub continued. Detroit scrapped its proposal that car safety standards could best be set by the automakers themselves through a voluntary-action program. That plan had pleased no one-least of all President Johnson, who two weeks ago blasted Detroit for its "picayunish" objections to the Administration's highway-safety bill...
...hoisted a Panamanian flag. Outside Beira, the British frigate Plymouth warned the tanker to keep on going, and the Greek government, which had banned all oil shipments to Rhodesia, lifted the captain's papers, claiming that he was operating under an illegal Panamanian registration. Ignoring the hubbub, loanna V anchored a mile offshore. By then, a second Raphaely tanker, the Manuela, with another 16,000 tons of crude, was also sailing for Beira...
...small press alcoves on the south side of the courtroom were jammed. Reporters who could not find space lined the corridor beyond and scribbled notes as best they could. Court secretaries who normally stick to their typewriters peered through the brass latticework at the cause of all the hubbub: Dr. Sam Sheppard, 42. With the unwitting help of the press, Sheppard had finally managed to have his case heard by the Supreme Court...
...days the confidence vote raged over the King's third and latest choice as Premier, Elias Tsirimokos, 58, a left-leaning member of ex-Premier Papandreou's Center Union Party who broke away at Constantine's bidding to try and form a government. Fist fights and hubbub punctuated the session, and all the King's men and all of Papandreou's felt the pressure of last-minute efforts at coercion that included dark threats of murder. Tsirimokos spoke confidently of victory. The real winner turned out to be Papandreou, who, in his usual style, waited...
...Lindner assimilated the hubbub of urban New York, he combined his natural bent for satire with his impulse to depict city bustle: "You see women on the streets all wrapped up like candy packages," he says, and he is the artist of the concupiscent street scene, of crass crowds, of penny-ante popular life. "Macy's is the greatest museum in the world," he says. "You can study the people, the objects, the smells. Even the chandelier department is a sort of phony Versailles...