Word: hue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incidental benefit to the Communists of the hue & cry over the Rosenbergs: it diverts attention from their own attacks on the Jews in Czechoslovakia, which the New York Daily Worker had yet to tell its readers about...
...These are the charter members of a now abandoned project, the Harvard Hall of Fame. The Union Dining Hall, it seems, was to become a sort of collegiate Cooperstown, with the name of one famous graduate on every panel. The announcement of the plan was accompanied by a great hue, and pressure by groups of alumni desiring impannelment of their special hero. But the high cost of matching the first elaborate carvings soon stopped the Hall of Fame idea altogether...
Kandinsky and Klee did more than anyone else to invent the language of modern art. Their followers have developed an impressive number of dialects. Although it is hard to hear the voices of today's quieter artists above the abstractionists' hue & cry, it seems likely that the noise will subside in time. As Carnegie Director Washburn puts it: "The 1952 International gives the impression of looking forward into the future. But it is actually of its own time, the year...
...known that they never did put their corn in Government warehouses," said Hope. "They usually put it in a crib at home and got a loan on it ... It was one of the biggest political hoaxes in history." There was, in fact, some scratching for storage space, but the hue & cry was exaggerated, and the Democrats harvested many a farmer's vote with the fear technique...
...left leading the pack with shouts of "academic freedom." Denounced on this ground. Conant only dug himself in deeper when he stated that the decision was reached solely "on the basis of teaching capacity and scholarly ability." Since both the men were known as excellent teachers, undergraduates raised a hue and cry about the University's policy of "publish or perish." A Student Council investigation placed the blame on the University's over-emphasis on publishing as a requirement for permanent tenure. At an alumni meeting H. V. Kaltenborn '10, attacked Conant for his "neglect of the social sciences...