Word: ruckus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grim mission of conscience. He strode across the Nashville campus and handed Chancellor Harvie Branscomb a terse letter of resignation. By week's end ten other divinity-school faculty members followed Nelson, 17 students quit, and three recent graduates returned their diplomas. It was the worst ruckus in Vanderbilt's 87-year history...
...When the ruckus broke over the Paris-Presse story, Stevenson at first denied that he had ever seen Boulay. "This report of an alleged interview is grotesque; I have given no interviews to any Paris paper in the past year." Then Stevenson acknowledged that he had entertained Boulay at Libertyville, but insisted that he was grossly misquoted. "The views Mr. Boulay attributed to me," he said, "had nothing to do with my opinions and do not in any way correspond with my opinions today. The most charitable explanation of such irresponsibility, of such presumption and such a lack of courtesy...
...Paris with his invalid wife, but got there only as K. was about to depart at Orly Airport. Eaton told K. the story of George Washington, the cherry tree and telling no lies. Later, Eaton was asked if he regarded Dwight Eisenhower as a liar in the spy plane ruckus. "No," replied Canadian-born Millionaire Eaton, "but we pulled some serious fibs. We need to return to the principles of George Washington." His helpful history lesson earned Eaton a Khrushchev promise: "When Communism has triumphed in the whole world, I'll say a word in your favor...
...also been hotly accused of being unnecessarily arbitrary and of failing to consult with the industry before he gavels out his dicta. Recently, he ordered airlines to install weather radar in all planes, had to back down and make an exception of obsolescent planes when some lines raised a ruckus. The Air Line Pilots Association, the exclusive A.F.L.-C.I.O. union (membership: 14,000) led by Militant Pilot Clarence Sayen, is Quesada's most vociferous critic. A.L.P.A.'s latest complaint: Quesada's new ruling requiring mandatory retirement of all transport pilots at 60. The union is bringing court...