Word: hubbub
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...source of the hubbub is, by and large, an 8' x 10' stone-walled room in the store's basement: Gurdal's cheese cave...
...This hubbub in the heartland, yet another sign that the sports phenomenon known as the senior tour has become a fixture on the American scene, reflects a larger social trend: the greater acceptance of older people performing well--indeed, excellently--in a variety of pursuits. In golf, and more recently in tennis, players who quickened the pulse of sports fans a few decades ago--Palmer, Nicklaus and Trevino, for example, and Connors, McEnroe and Borg--are back on the courses and courts, and back in the news, striving in spirited competition with their peers...
...argument that a list of regular best sellers should exclude children's best sellers will strike most people as preposterous. But then the whole Harry Potter hubbub seems equally outlandish--the proliferating pages that fans are posting almost daily on the Web, the word-of-mouth testimonials from parents marveling that their nonreading children (even boys!) are tearing through the Potter books and begging for more, the confessions of a growing number of adults not so young that they find these young-adult books irresistible. And the arrival of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban will only add more...
...promenade built to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the UN Charter signing which occurred in the city. The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station, the market and the city hall itself were all dwarfed by the more familiar icons of the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges and the hubbub around the construction of the new Giants ballpark...
After all the hubbub about architecture and exclusion, Lamont Library has emerged an essential part of undergraduate life at Harvard. As a prophetic Crimson writer recognized in 1949, "Lamont Library is here to stay...