Word: hubbub
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...campaign was not up to the Irish mark. Homebound by Eire's shortage of petrol, candidates hardly bothered to take their coats off. Newspapers predicted apathy at the polls. A few days before the election, Dubliners seemed more interested in Eire's current hubbub over venereal disease than in politics. But the Irish misjudged the Irish. On election day some 65% of the eligible voters managed to get to the polls-by donkey cart, shanks' mare, even horse-drawn mourning coaches...
...Dodge? But in a time when the majority of U.S. citizens enjoy no such means of getting pay raises, there arose considerable hubbub over this newest loophole in the income-tax laws...
This heart-warming moment was an instant of quiet in three days of hubbub and hero worship which began as soon as his seven brothers (six in uniform) pummeled a welcome on his back at the airport. "Commando" quickly settled one point in the hubbub: whether the dilapidated alley home was a fit place for a returning Congressional Medal of Honor winner. (City officials had first offered a new apartment, then engaged a $55-a-day suite at the William Penn Hotel when they learned that the Kelly home had no electric lights, no bathroom plumbing and little paint.) Said...
Available. The letters made hubbub. But at first, Republicans were mainly confused. Was the most popular U.S. General of World War II willing to risk infringing Army propriety in order to make his views clear...
...brought jeeps and trucks and waddling busses, a ceaseless need for speed. But people told each other the hubbub was just a part of war. Then last week, the Assembly voted 2-to-1 to lift the ban on private cars, unanimously to permit taxicabs and motorcycles. Barring a legislative afterthought. Bermuda's restful tempo was gone for good...