Word: hues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Juan Domingo Perón was still sitting firmly in his presidential chair. But the Perónist hue & cry over the Bolivian upset supported U.S. State Department charges that Argentine colonels had sparked the tyranny of Bolivian majors. To the Perón crowd, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden and Capitalism (in that order) were to blame. Shrieked a Perón deputy: "Braden has a habit of arranging matters with his checkbook...
...have been very kindly to me in the past about some things and I want to help them if I could." (When General Campbell said he had, as usual, made a recorded transcript of the talk, other worried Congressmen lost sight of the investigation completely, began a furious hue-& -cry about "wire-tapping...
...loosed a popular hue & cry. Said Rio's Diario Carioca: "The poor were seized with panic, since it cut off their only convenient, practical, inexpensive way to care for their health." Tongue-in-cheek Columnist Rubem Braga, in Diretrizes, suggested "installation of public injection centers, thus permitting the formation of long queues which could join with all the other queues into which the population has been marshaled...
Smoke-Cured. In Manhattan, John Sforza, 19, strolled along Fifth Avenue, suddenly turned a corpselike hue, collapsed, was rushed to a hospital. Diagnosis: cigar-his first...
...film of obedient blindness from your eyes, oh Veritas; we are back and would share greater vistas with you. Hidden under cloth of monotonous hue, your once-broad searching has hurried along the dictated path, looking neither to right nor left. The stern discipline imposed on your inquiring soul must have made insensitive dreams of clouds lolling in luxurious sunlight, resilient grasses, paternal elms and walls of mellow brick. You needed peace, and us, and we needed you, while we were stumbling upon the rocky path...