Word: hubbub
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, the official World Chess Championship had opened a day earlier, with considerably less hubbub, in the small town of Zwolle, the Netherlands. There, former world champion Anatoly Karpov faced Dutch grandmaster Jan Timman for prize money of roughly $1.4 million...
...good performance) has an unfortunate propensity for marrying inappropriate men on what seems to be an almost annual basis. Unable to deal with a family that keeps extending itself in such a careless way, Chuck is a little bit bifurcated himself, falling into dreamy spells to escape the hubbub. Lacking a reliable father figure, he tells himself that regimentation will make a man of him. All he has to do is pass that entrance exam, and that's where McLeod, inhabiting a gloomy mansion in the Maine resort town where Chuck and family are vacationing, comes in. Pretty soon McLeod...
...haircut hubbub even had a complex sideshow: the disclosure that the Administration had abruptly fired seven longtime employees of the White House travel office, which handles trips for the press. The move should have been a public relations plus -- rooting out shoddy accounting practices and gross mismanagement in an office with large amounts of unaccounted-for cash and noncompetitive contracts...
...Donna Brewer, who runs a cafe next to the courthouse, said Driver "deserved what he got. That's the worst crime there is." And Nesler's sister claimed that Driver, who had a previous conviction for child molestation, had "smirked" when he entered the courtroom. Almost lost in the hubbub was the district attorney, who called the shooting "reprehensible." Nesler, who was freed on $500,000 bond, will enter a plea this week...
...night to celebrate. Raising their glasses in the Eagle, a pub near the campus of Cambridge University in England, a euphoric Francis Crick, 36, and James Watson, 24, drank to what they had just accomplished. Over the hubbub in the crowded pub, Crick's voice boomed out, "We have discovered the secret of life...