Word: hubbub
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...front in a lend-lease U.S. Army scout car, loaded with soldiers and armed with riot guns, and explained that I must not travel at night unarmed: "This is not China. People are unfriendly." An orange glow tinted the sky when we ran into a truck jam and a hubbub of cursing Chinese soldiers. "Six planes incendiarized a town south of the river, and traitors burned the north of the river," an officer explained. In the woods, the tall, straight trees formed pillars in the column of fire, and stood trembling silently for a few moments, then crashed to earth...
...when war came at last, the U.S. suddenly realized that its vast new industry had not prepared it for war at all. It was still just another industry, a peripheral hubbub, an invasion of the economy whose deepest salient was 17%. When it entered the war the U.S. still had an economy. It did not have what its enemies have: a total war machine...
...while it looks as if Theatre will be all smirk and no play. When the well of adultery runs dry, the authors rush with their buckets to the dripping fount of sentimental stage glamor: the star's dressing room on a great London first night, flowers, hubbub, reminiscing old doorman, tiff between actresses-and, in the midst of all this, the lover's dismissal and the husband's return...
...bring you the real-life stories behind the headlines-the news as it really is. Time Slouches On! (bugle call) . . . We take you to Washington, where upon the witness stand [at the movie "propaganda" hearings] sits a well-known movie figure, known and loved throughout the world! (voices hubbub...
When Minister Bevin announced last month that the Group's lay evangelists would not be exempted from military service, there was a great hubbub. To Laborite Bevin's defense sprang Crusader-Humorist Alan Patrick Herbert, Oxford University's Member in Parliament. To Oxonian Herbert the Oxford Group is a bee in the bustle. It riles him to think that Frank Buchman and his brash, eupeptic fishers among the up-&-outs* have the nerve to link themselves implicitly with the great Oxford Movements led by John Wesley and Cardinal Newman...