Word: hullabaloos
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...hullabaloo is more than just fun, by Cornelia's reckoning. "I think it shows such an accomplishment that kids like us can get up and do this," she declares. "Everyone says, 'All they do is party all night.' Well, this will prove we can get up and pull ourselves together and perform and do something that people can be proud of and enjoy...
With the recent raising of the Campaign's sights, there's going to be a lot of hullabaloo around here, as development officers try to preserve momentum from the first part of the fundrive and refocus it into the new push. There'll be palm-greasing, backslapping, nostalgia, and simple exhortations to key alums to the fact that the final goal is no longer near, but two years and $135 million away...
...Pyramids," my supervisor was still groaning last summer, months after the third and fourth possible solutions to the question had hit the national press. "Do these people know what they've done to me? I have nightmares about pyramids. I'll never go to Egypt." P>Somewhere in the hullabaloo, the Board's various executive directors and Program Services Officers--the ones dealing with the fluctuating legislation and sparring with reporters over nuances in PSAT answer sheets--discovered a new concerned group: students. Ordinarily the Board shapes policies around input from ETS, which as distributor deals with high school...
When Reagan, apparently surprised by the hullabaloo, told Cronkite, "I certainly don't see any likelihood of us going in with fighting forces," the movement began to wither. For another month or two, and on this campus for another three, people seemed to stay concerned and active. But then the liberal's own Vietnam syndrome--the readiness to forget about the disease as soon as the worst symptoms clear up--took over. There were other causes: nuclear weapons, for one. And Reagan was up to other games: His budget cuts drew all eyes for a few weeks. But more than...
...HULLABALOO has been raised and hosannas have been shouted in recent weeks, by those who concern themselves with the relationship between Harvard and Cambridge. From University public relations experts, from city officials normally bristly at the mention of the school and form neighborhood leaders, there has been much high-minded talk of a new era, an era of cooperation, of peaceful coexistence, of detente. Before long, they'll be sending AWACs back and forth...