Word: hubbubing
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...Communist-bandit horde coming fast down the Yuan River, the Misses Granner and Renninger hopped into a small Chinese junk and told the boatman to make haste by sail and oar for the city of Changteh. As the square-bowed, flat-bottomed boat slithered downstream, the army's hubbub crept up behind. The junk was lolloping along 20 miles short of Changteh when it was overhauled and seized by the bandits...
Ignoring such attacks, President Andrew Conley of the T. U. C. threw maximum weight against the pacifists. Amid hubbub the T. U. C. adopted a resolution under which British laborers may work on whatever munitions orders come the way of their employers. As a sop to pacifism the T. U. C. went on record as still favoring the League of Nations but definitely rejected the program of a general strike to prevent...
...sale of electrical gadgets, $100,000 trying to make soft coal smokeless. They have built roads, transmission lines, a town and a tourist camp; planted 2,751,000 trees, 7,000 kudzu vines, nine tons of grass seed; started teaching elderly mountaineers trades and have generally created more hubbub than the Valley has seen since Grant took Shiloh in 1862. Most of the Valley's 2,000,000 souls gape in awe at the everlengthening procession of TVA wonders. Some are very angry indeed but no one is bored. TVA's magic wand waves too fast...
...harder to fathom. It is possible that it is one of the things that is because it has always been. The ritual of the gab has always been. The ritual of the gates might be modified along with that of the morning bell and with considerably less of the hubbub which accompanied that move. One more gate could surely be sacrificed to encourage more to "enter and grow in wisdom...
...spread across the pages of Japan's press. His enemies had dug up the article and reprinted it. Millions shuddered as they read. Deputies in the Diet shouted that Nakajima who had condoned treachery to the throne was a traitor too. Peers pointed their fingers. Lost in the hubbub were murmurs that Minister Nakajima had been distributing stock in the semi-official Bank of Taiwan below market price. In vain the flustered baron protested that ten years had changed his ideas. Though War Minister Hayashi pooh-poohed the article as "such a small thing," Baron Nakajima had to resign...