Word: hubbubing
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...quickly silenced the hubbub over portal-to-portal pay suits. It had voted for unification of the armed services. It had managed to reduce appropriations from $1.2 billion to $2.5 billion (rival Democratic and Republican claims). It was not the Republicans' fault that income taxes were not reduced. They had tried...
Willie Francis never quite understood all the hubbub that followed-the appeals to the Louisiana courts, the pleas to the State Pardon Board, the sob stories in the press. When he heard that the Supreme Court had ruled against him, he was just surprised that "one Negro boy could get all those big men" to talk about...
...Dodd raised his hands for silence. Said Norris: "I want to present these questions." By this time, nobody on the rostrum could be heard. From the clerical congregation came an angry hubbub interspersed with cries of "Throw him out!" and around Norris gathered a menacing knot of young minister veterans. Eventually four policemen showed up and explained that they had been summoned to quell a riot. By that time the uproar had quieted and Louie Newton continued his report...
...house lights come up, and above the hubbub in the aisles one can hear a spectral voice pronounced in awe-filled tones, "The overture...Duel in the Sun..." And thus begins David O. Selznick's nine-million dollar horse opera. Of this pile of cash a very substantial share has been invested in what has been perhaps the most immense hoopla campaign since Thomas A. Edison invented the motion picture. Such an unparalelled barrage of publicity has been such a long stretch of time that quite a sizable fraction of the population already is intent upon seeing the picture...
...Budget Day last week a large crowd gathered in the big, circular lobby adjoining the Chamber. Over the hubbub in the lobby came a sharp, shouted command from a guard: "Hats off, strangers." Everyone stood stone still. There was a long minute of silence as the Speaker's procession approached. (In such a moment at a recent session, a Member tried to get the attention of Laborite Neil MacLean, called sotto voce, "Neil . . . Neil." Six women, they say, knelt.) Brigadier Sir Charles Howard, the Serjeant at Arms (who insists that his title be spelled that way), wearing knee breeches...