Word: ruckuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly after we arrived here, the Reducator ruckus broke open and a number of professors were maligned for actively supporting liberal candidates in the election campaign last fall...
...every sniff, hiss and boo they responded with rousing "Ahhs!" All in all, the exhibition raised a splendid ruckus...
...week's end, Adam Hats flatly denied in a full page ad in the N.Y. Times that it had been pressured into dropping Pearson. Actually, it said, it had notified Pearson a full month before the McCarthy ruckus that his contract would not be renewed, because it was switching from radio advertising into newspapers and magazines. Said Adam Hats: "It is therefore obviously impossible that Senator McCarthy's attack upon Mr. Pearson and requested boycott of Adam Hats could have had any influence whatsoever upon our decision...
...ruckus last week over the case, most of Brownsville's townspeople backed Dr. Stephens. So did fellow doctors, though none could raise his voice for fear that he, too, would find the doors of Mercy Hospital shut in his patients' faces...
Long after their ruckus with temperamental Artur Rodzinski (TIME, Feb. 17, 1947), the directors of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra seemed unwilling to give full-conductor powers to anybody else. Staggered by guest conductors and triumvirates, the U.S.'s oldest (108 years) and once finest orchestra lost much of its poise and polish. Last spring the directors finally overcame their hesitation, picked Minneapolis' Greek-born Dimitri Mitropoulos, who shared the season with Leopold Stokowski last year...