Word: hullabaloo
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...cause of all the hullabaloo is a jaunty, cream-colored computer that will sell for $2,495. From the side, Macintosh looks like an offspring of E.T. and R2-D2 that might start walking. But the fuss is also about Apple, the company that likes to say it invented the personal computer. If Apple is to beat back IBM and continue the whirlwind progress that has taken it on a seven-year ride from manufacturing in a California garage to annual sales of $1 billion, Macintosh must be a triumph...
What is this hullabaloo about the borders of the Soviet Union being sacred? The U.S.S.R. applies a double standard on moral values: one for them and another for other countries. What should the Afghan say about the Soviets' violation of his sacred borders...
...Korean jetliner were sprinkled with quaint and creaky colloquialisms. Ronald Reagan, said TASS, is acting like an "ignoramus" who sheds "crocodile tears." Protesters who picketed the Long Island estate of the Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations behaved like "hooligans." All this international outrage amounts to a "hullabaloo." It was as if a Soviet translator had stumbled onto a dusty dictionary of Anglo-American slang, circa...
...1600s as a synonym for dunce, is Latin for "we do not know." In the original Russian version, the word is nevezhda, which means "an ignorant person." Krokodilovy slyozy, which translates literally as "tears of the crocodile," derives from a Russian fable similar to the Western tale. Hullabaloo, which harks back at least to the 18th century English wolf-hunting cry of "halloo-baloo," appeared as shumikha, which means "uproar." Hooligan is simply khuligan in Russian, with precisely the same meaning in English...
...taken any steps from the American side to end the gross violation of the airspace of the U.S.S.R.?" TASS said that 'leading circles" in the Soviet Union express "regret" over the loss of life, but the news agency dismissed the worldwide uproar over the attack as mere "hullabaloo...