Word: ruckus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...domestic issue that does arouse interest-and controversy-is the Kennedy Administration's drive for liberalized foreign trade. But many Congressmen remain undecided about which way the wind blows, and are waiting before taking stands. One thing they agree on: foreign trade is going to raise a real ruckus. Observes Massachusetts' Republican Representative Brad Morse: "The concern isn't from industry; it's from the fellow who wears a cap and sweater to work. He just sees in any expansion of foreign trade a jeopardy to his own employment." Adds Detroit's Democratic Representative John...
...gone. Udall decided-with considerable cause-that much of Washington's statuary was awful; as a step toward remedying the situation, he shipped a bronze statue of William Jennings Bryan back to Bryan's birthplace in Salem, Ill. This raised a ruckus from Washington's Bryan fanciers. Later, a Potomac, Md., innkeeper exploded when Udall, on a hiking trip along the banks of the Potomac River with, among others, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, marched into her place in a rain-soaked poncho. "Get out of here!" she cried. "You look like...
...hill of beans.") But this year the still spiny "Cactus Jack" gaveled down the traditional birthday shivaree that in years past has drawn such guests as Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman and the late Sam Rayburn. Said Garner: "I don't want any fuss or anybody raising a ruckus. I feel good some of the time, but I don't feel so good at other times...
From the moment of its inception, the U.S. Peace Corps, for all its laudable aims, was bound to run into trouble sooner or later. As it turned out, that trouble came sooner: last week, just 20 days after the first Peace Corps volunteers arrived in Ibadan. Nigeria, a raucous ruckus was raised by a postcard written by a girl from Foxboro, Mass...
...Quadros hoped by resigning to raise a hue and cry in the streets to demand his return, free of chafing congressional restrictions, he misjudged his people. There was surprisingly little ruckus, and by the time he boarded the Uruguay Star in Santos, Brazil's eyes were on the chaos he had created. Only newsmen and a few curious bystanders stood at dockside to watch him go. Enigmatic and emotional as ever, he told the reporters, "They are forcing me out. I will return." As he mounted the gangplank and the lines were dropped, he shook with sobs...