Word: hullabalooers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amid all the hullabaloo about who's ahead in scientific achievement, the Swedish Academy of Science, which awards Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics, has remained notably indifferent to political leanings. It was not pro-Western sympathy but professional admiration that last week made a pair of U.S. scientists the 1960 Nobel prizewinners in chemistry and physics...
...Bhave's womenfolk garlanded the prisoners with tinsel like so many heroes. Even India's President Prasad sent Bhave a message of congratulations: "The whole nation looks with hope and admiration at the manner in which you have been able to arouse better instincts." In all the hullabaloo, no one paid much attention to the fact that Lakhan Singh, No. 1 dacoit on the still-at-large list, had sent word that he preferred to take his chances on capture, or that another dacoit, after attending a Bhave prayer meeting, hustled off to commit a robbery less than...
...world were being flooded with letters about the fate of a condemned Negro, Jimmie Wilson. Convicted of a nighttime robbery (a capital offense in Alabama), Wilson, 55, had stolen $1.95, faced the electric chair. Ordering a clemency hearing about two weeks after Dulles' letter, Folsom noted the "international hullabaloo," soon afterward commuted Wilson's sentence to life imprisonment...