Word: hubbub
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Admittedly the most effective speaker in England after Winston Churchill, Priestley left the English air waves amid a hubbub of press excitement. London papers suggested that he had been squeezed into silence by pressure from Whitehall, which was, they said, alarmed at his forthright pleas for more democracy in Britain. Declared the New Statesman: "He tells us he was not stopped. But . . . that these broadcasts should stop is a national calamity which may matter more than Dakar...
Even Harlem's pro-Roosevelt Amsterdam News joined in the outraged hubbub. Jim Crow Army Hit, ran its page 1 banner over a story denouncing the Army's policy...
...clear quick bugle notes of the "Alert!" cut through the hubbub of the fidgety crowd. Field guns pounded. In the pale blue sky three huge Army bombers droned, floating swiftly over the old town, high above miles of narrow, cobbly, people-packed streets...
...University of California, the undergraduate season last week got off to a turbulent start. As 2,000 undergraduates staged an anti-conscription hubbub outside the college gates, President Robert Gordon Sproul warned his students that when & if conscription was enacted, he would regard further agitation as "interference with national defense," might expel agitators...
Putting in his oar, New York-born Laborite Ernest Thurtle shouted above the hubbub: "Has it escaped notice of the Prime Minister that many . . . who are pressing this question are rather lukewarm about prosecution...