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...this was the undeniable fact that General McNaughton was run down and tired. The people wondered when & how all the hubbub and hostility would end. Not many really thought the bruised and battered Defense Minister would ask the Prime Minister to relieve him of his job. But that possibility could not be ruled out. Said the Ottawa Journal: "Many experts [believe] that McNaughton won't answer the bell [for the next round], that Mackenzie King . . . will advise him to throw in the towel...
...devout, home-loving man, the father of 13 children, Velasco taught for years at the National Academy in Mexico City, encouraged such promising pupils as Diego Rivera. He visited the World's Fairs in Chicago; and Philadelphia, detested the hubbub of North American cities...
Russia's puppetizing of Poland also drew protests from the U.S. and British press and liberals-but nothing like the hubbub they made when Prime Minister Winston Churchill attempted to preserve order in Greece. Liberal opinion was less concerned with the fate of the Poles than with the effect of Stalin's move on the Grand Alliance, the war and a future world security organization...
...three months before, but now there were not many people about and they no longer looked ecstatically happy, but only glum. Many, however, gave us the V sign and waved bravely. At dusk we came to a city. The buzz of the robombs was loud and clear over the hubbub of the traffic, and we saw a trail of red fire coming across the grey sky on the darkened city. It fell with a loud clatter and flames shot up and people ran hurriedly through the streets...
...Current Crop. All but drowned in the postwar hubbub was the West Coast's brand-new American Football League, which was finding college box-office competition a hard nut to crack. Last week, a 4,000 handful turned out to see the Los Angeles Mustangs meet the Los Angeles Wildcats in a league tussle, whereas 60,000 fans had braved 105° temperatures the day before to watch the University of Southern California play U.C.L.A. This month, further complicating the customer quest, the four-year-old Pacific Coast Football League swings into action...