Word: hullaballoo
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...whole hullaballoo stemmed from the fact that Communist forces in Laos had broken a cease-fire agreement, sent Laotian government troops scampering, and were now threatening Thailand as well as South Viet Nam (see THE WORLD...
With Moscow's cultural commissars still smarting from his poetic onslaught on Soviet anti-Semitism (TIME, Nov. 3), Russia's indomitable Evgeny Evtushenko, 28, stirred up a new hullaballoo by rebuffing the lionization of the young intelligentiki and flatly denying that his outspokenness made him "a brave man." Wrote Evtushenko in Russia's Literaturnaya Gazeta (Kiev edition only...
...indoor track season last December, Mark Mullin of Harvard was looking forward to a clash with Elliott, the world record holder at 3:54.5, in the mile. After Mullin's 4:07.1 in the Heptagonal Games established him as the greatest miler in Ivy League history, the hullaballoo over his meeting with Elliott began to grow...
Only seven months ago Italy's Communists, starchy with the stiffest kind of bourgeois morality, piously raised their voices in horror at the revelations of "bourgeois decadence" in the Wilma Montesi case. In the hullaballoo over drugs and sex among high-placed Romans, both Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni and the national police chief quit their posts, and there was much talk of cover-up and hush-up. But the talk was not followed by proof.* Meanwhile, Magazine Publisher Edgardo Sogno began finding political and personal scandals about the Communists themselves (TIME, Nov. 1). And last week the Communists were...
...hullaballoo of political campaigns, when in the form of rallies and occasional parades, is not really intolerable. One can always escape by merely walking away. But when candidates pursue the fleeing voter with malignant sound trucks, the freedom to campaign becomes a license to annoy...