Word: hullabaloos
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There was no hullabaloo demanding their release, no publicity such as attended the case and trial of Francis Gary Powers -a well-paid civilian who admittedly flew his U-2 over Russia on a photomapping expedition for the Central Intelligence Agency. The men of the RB-47 were uniformed members of the Air Force, on regular duty and a legal mission...
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...
...hullabaloo over labor-reform legislation, it appears that someone has been overlooked. I refer to the rank-and-file unionist. Without his support, no union boss could afford the elaborate retinue of thugs, lobbyists, and shysters that Hoffa commands. Yet the union members never question Jimmy's methods, so long as he gets results...