Word: hubbub
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...height of the McCarthy hubbub last spring, Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith rose on the floor of the Senate and directed some pointed remarks at her glowering colleague. "As a U.S. Senator," she said, "I am not proud of the reckless abandon in which unproved charges have been hurled from this side of the aisle." Her Declaration of Conscience, which six other G.O.P. liberals also signed (TIME, June 12), declared "it is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques...
...hubbub of Washington, said Alice Roosevelt Longworth, "I'm privileged. I occupy a position of malevolent detachment...
...third major liberisation of the rules in two decades, and the fifth controversy over them in that same period. Previous changes were made in 1931 and 1941; there were discussions in those years and in 1936 and 1946. There is therefore no way to account for this year's hubbub but to assume that the parietal cycle, like everything else in the world, has speeded...
...occurred to me while reading your article that all of this hubbub about flying saucers started a long time ago. Didn't the Bible record that Ezekiel saw the wheel-way up in the middle...
...plane from Bratislava an American passenger, Katherine Kosmak, USIS librarian in Prague, noticed nothing amiss until the pilot began to circle for a landing. Then she heard a woman remark: "Oh, this isn't Prague." On the field below were U.S. military planes. In a hubbub of surprise and alarm, the liner rolled out, taxied up to the line. U.S. officers yanked open the hatch, yelled: "Get out, get out! No one is going to be hurt. You are in Munich. One of your pilots doesn't like Czechoslovakia...