Word: huff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chary about playing on U.S. soil. The last time he tried it, in Manhattan, he was met with picket lines and cries of "Nazi!" and the Justice Department asked him to postpone his concert till it investigated him (TIME, Feb. 7, 1949). Gieseking flew back to Europe in a huff. In Honolulu this week, 5,000 miles from Manhattan, Pianist Gieseking turned up again for a concert on U.S. territory. Almost the only ripple was the ripple of the applause...
Hugh Ferry had merely taken the presidency as a stop-gap after President George Christopher quit in a huff (TIME, Aug. 28, 1950). The quarreling stockholder factions who forced Christopher out have been wrangling ever since, but last week they finally agreed on a president: James J. Nance, 51, president of G.E.'s Hotpoint...
...Presidents have left office in such a huff as to miss the inaugurations of their successors. Crusty John Adams did it* when Thomas Jefferson defeated him for re-election in 1800. He left the capital at dawn of Inauguration Day, and by March 17, 1801, after a 14-day journey, he was back on his Quincy, Mass. farm. He even congratulated himself, Yankee-fashion, on a shrewd swap, having made, he felt, "a good exchange ... of honors and virtues for manure...
...PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY, which has struggled along under guest conductors since Fritz Reiner left in a huff (TIME, March 8, 1948), chose a bustling German-born American: William Steinberg, 52, who has made a name for himself as leader of the Buffalo Philharmonic since...
...dumped trash in the hallways, 3) cursed so loudly and often that many other guests had checked out in a huff...