Word: hubbub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hubbub about confrontation and escalation against the Soviets [Jan. 18], one significant factor has been overlooked: it does not matter what the actual intentions of the West are toward the Soviet Union. What is important is the Soviet citizen's perception of these intentions. Despite their disenchantment with their own government, the Soviet people are convinced that the U.S. wishes to destroy them. Therefore, they are patriotic and loyal, and whatever is said or done to reinforce their convictions will turn out to be counterproductive...
...seats reserved for the press were full, and so were the 175 places for spectators. A lonely demonstrator wandered in and out of the courthouse in a monkey suit. But U.S. Marshal Charles Gray was not impressed by the hubbub. "When this is all over," he reflected, "it won't have changed anyone's mind." Gray surely has it right. The federal trial that began last week in Little Rock, Ark., will lead to a legal ruling on whether "creation science" (secular evidence for, among other things, the supernatural origin of the universe) may be required in public...
...hubbub of Brighton's Old Ship Hotel, the rough-hewn intellectual with the craggy brows celebrated his victory with a tulip of champagne followed by a pint of beer. For Denis Healey, there was symbolism as well as pleasure in the occasion-a signal that he was a man for all tastes. Healey had just been re-elected as the deputy leader of the Labor Party. Meanwhile, at a fish and chips place a few blocks away, Tony Benn, Healey's unsuccessful leftist challenger, sipped Coke from a can and ruminated on the sudden show of vigor from...
...Baptist Hubbub...
...probably no modern managing editor would ignore an earthquake in which a million Chinese died to preserve a human interest story about a rooster. Yet the play still works as media criticism and, even more, as a psychological portrait of newspapermen: brawling boys in love with spectacle and hubbub, literally snapping towels at each other in a courthouse pressroom flanked by lockers...