Word: hubbub
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...hand during the Sign of Peace--Bush said, "I don't always respect the guy, but you gotta like him." Maybe they see the scamp in each other. At the Inaugural Day coffee, it was as if old friends were back in town. When Chelsea seemed teary amid the hubbub, Bush put an arm around her shoulders...
...didn't give much thought to insurance amid the hubbub of buying my house in 1996. I ended up with a cash-value policy good for a specific amount. That was fine then. I knew what I was paying for the house. But since then I've made improvements and enjoyed appreciation in a hot housing market. I'm no longer sure what my house is worth, so I wanted to switch to a policy guaranteeing full replacement value no matter how mistaken I might...
...official charged with ensuring the integrity of the Texas justice system. However, from the perspective of those who are sentenced to die, it is truly unfortunate that any attack on the Texas death row has been characterized as an attack on Bush and lost amid the general election-year hubbub. Fixing a justice system that takes innocent lives should not be a political issue, as the Republican governor of Illinois, George Ryan, showed when he declared a moratorium on executions in his state. Rather than the political aspirations of a governor, the focus of public attention to the death penalty...
...introduce into the equation a beloved family cat, whose excretory habits have already been the subject of slightly strained discussion. Can you predict what he might do, when confronted with a nice, fresh pile of ashes in the midst of a nasty hubbub in which his needs are being ignored? If you can, then you have a taste for something in short supply lately--farce that is divinely invented and perfectly orchestrated...
...videotaping the canyon, panning from left to right and then right to left, and you plunge down the trail, which is broad and not too steep and studded with mule manure, and a hundred or so feet down, once you come around the second switchback, all the hubbub of the rim vanishes, and you enter into a magnificent silence...