Word: hubbub
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With all the hubbub that Ulrich has inevitably sparked in traffic jams throughout the nation, can she be classified as a “well-behaved woman”? She replies mysteriously, “Depends...
Washington state residents are at it again with their creative lawn decorations. The current hubbub is over a tree carved to look like a seven-foot penis. Last year there was a similar uproar over reindeer cutouts that looked like they were getting it on. So much can happen in just...
...public victory whoop (I came in 40th! I came in 40th!) knowing that it would not be appropriate in the dead-serious atmosphere surrounding the results board. I save my reactions for later, quietly absorbing my place (and the places of my teammates) before moving off out of the hubbub. Later in the day I come back to the same board when nobody is around. The banners are still up and there is the echo of something dramatic still hanging in the air. I sit and listen to the wind in the lodgepole pines and have my own quiet, private...
...language - not the President's strong suit, by his own admission. And that much was evident Wednesday as China policy watchers both in Washington and Beijing tried to parse the implications of Bush's latest comments about defending Taiwan, as the President himself did a little damage control. The hubbub began after Bush told ABC News Wednesday that Beijing needs to understand that the U.S. would "do whatever it takes" to defend Taiwan. That was a dramatic break with Washington's traditional ambiguity on the question, designed in part to avoid emboldening Taiwanese leaders to declare independence. In a subsequent...
Meanwhile, for all the hubbub surrounding him entering the day, Steitz got hammered...