Word: ruckus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...army in the account of the latest U.S. super-super-super Flying Fortress. It was so huge that the pilot, hearing a noise behind him, had to dispatch a courier by motorcycle to locate the trouble. "Just a football game on the lower deck," came the report. Another ruckus. "A water polo match in the swimming pool." A terrific bang. "Now the boys are furious, sir," reported the messenger. "A Russian plane was trying to buzz us. It flew in through the window and crashed on the basketball court...
...evidence, the voters had already made up their minds to answer: yes, it's time for a change. That was why Earl Warren could afford to campaign like a big, friendly Saint Bernard, tail-wagging his way east across the nation. The Republicans had only to raise no ruckus, make no thumping blunders, keep their fingers crossed against a world upheaval-and their election seemed assured...
...tiny bottle of combustible red fluid exploded last week into a labor ruckus that left thousands of Londoners without cheese, butter, bacon...
Automen wondered whether the lack of ledgers was the only stumbling block to production. Tucker claimed to have built 35 cars, but newsmen counted less than ten. The ruckus over the investigation sent Tucker stock skidding from a June high of 4¼ to 2⅛, and there was further trouble ahead. In New York stockholders charged that the company was headed for insolvency, asked the court to appoint a receiver...
...year-old Michigan-born accountant (from Tom Dewey's home town of Owosso), he first stubbed his toe on Government brass as a World War I quartermaster officer. His persistent attempt to overhaul the archaic accounting methods of the sprawling Chicago quartermaster's office caused a ruckus that brought him to the verge of a court-martial. But the quartermaster general took one look at Kohler's suggestions, ordered them adopted on the spot...