Word: hubbubing
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Promptly at noon White got the meeting under way. The crowd was noisy and restless. Stockholders stood by their seats, clamoring for recognition, or wandered aimlessly around the room. White stuck to his agenda, but soon his chairman's gavel was drowned out by the hubbub. Finally, he got through the nomination of the two opposing slates for the 15-man board of directors. He announced that the voting would include two resolutions sponsored by Mrs. Wilma Soss, the vocal president of the Federation of Women Shareholders and the holder of ten shares (plus about 1,000 proxies). Then...
...modest grey clapboard house in Princeton, N.J., Physicist Albert Einstein was deluged with letters, wires and cables from all over the world, soberly deduced that the hubbub was stirred up by the passing of his 75th birthday...
This purge produced a hubbub on the Catholic intellectual left that for a while drowned out the clamor over the worker-priests themselves. One Catholic review hinted that "the influence of Cardinal Spellman and his friend McCarthy" was responsible. In another Catholic journal, a priest wrote that "we are not obliged to believe that Rome's decisions are made out of pure and lofty motives." Gaullist Senator Edmond Michelet demanded that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault "call the attention of the Holy See to the regrettable consequences which our country's prestige might suffer throughout the world...
Columbia football mentor Lou Little, chairman of the Coaches' Rules Committee, with the close of the season mailed out the annual questionnaires to the nation's coaches concerning regulation changes; and despite the recent hubbub about fate injuries, by far the major issue is the substitution rule...
...argued through the week, much of the British press (see INTERNATIONAL), joined by some of the U.S. press, wrung its hands because the U.S. was suddenly on the unpopular side of a vote. The cries of "intransigence" faded somewhat once Lodge had won his point. But in the great hubbub, few stopped to realize that by holding to a firm policy, the U.S. had resisted a tempting form of appeasement -and thus probably contributed solidly to any genuine settlement to be made in Asia (if the Communists really want...