Word: ruckus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tilled hill and manicured dale they bounded with tally-hos, yoicks and view halloos, making life miserable not only for the fox, but for stolid farmers and their livestock. It was not long before, in the words of one who was there, "the locals were raising a proper bloody ruckus." For one thing, such goings-on were not cricket in the eyes of Lower Saxony farmers, whose own system of hunting is to grub about on foot with small whistles that imitate the cries of a rabbit, and then to pounce on the fox. They appealed to Herr Hans Lieberkuehn...
Were students less personally involved, we suspect they would find much in the yearly parietal ruckus to amuse them. Some of the laughter, indeed, would be on themselves, but the funniest aspect would be the series of varied rags waved at them from time to time to rationalize social monasticism. Nevertheless, the subject evokes tier on tier of long faces, and when the rag is as tattered as the Administrative Board's latest, we can hardly find fault with the gloom...
...last-ditch Verdi-lovers turned out to express their disapproval, greeted the opening curtain with whistles, catcalls and shouts of "Vergogna, vergogna!" (Shame, shame!). But the ruckus was feeble compared with the uproar they raised over Gian-Carlo Menotti's Consul and Juan Jose Castro's Proserpina (TIME, Feb. 5, 1951; March...
...game and starts throwing things, taking it out on the furniture about those lucky bastards winning that one. He finally takes a kick at the water cooler and the bottle falls and breaks and the ice goes all over the floor and there's a hell of a ruckus. Now Al Dark has a good day that day. As I remember it, we get six hits and he got three or four. But nobody could score him. Well, one of those newspaper guys comes in and stops by Dark and says, 'Anyhow, Al, you did all right with...
Despite all the ruckus over questionable loans and influence-peddling, the Reconstruction Finance Corp. managed to accomplish a few things last year. RFC Administrator Stuart Symington, who took over the agency when it smelled the worst last May, reported that in fiscal 1951 (ending last June 30), RFC paid more than $95 million to its sole stockholder, the U.S. Treasury...