Word: ruckuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, Jan. 26), which alleged wholesale pimping by U.S. business to soften up clients. Murrow himself had got into the act only three weeks before showtime, read a script somebody else had written for him with his usual sonorous solemnity. But his voice had scarcely stopped vibrating when the ruckus started...
Painful to Remember. Tempers grew so hot in the Diet that brisk fighting broke out though members themselves stayed out of the line of fire while they sent forth their male secretaries to bop one another with chairs and lunch boxes. Socialists, stirring up the ruckus inside the Diet and labor leaders calling a general strike outside it, were, said Kishi, threatening the parliamentary democracy "which you claim to cherish." But they were not the only opponents of the bill. Throughout Japan last week, responsible men and women with vivid memories of the days when the police could arrest...
...other aspect of the U.S. exhibition, which ranges from fashion show to soda-serving drug counter, has raised such a ruckus as the choice of U.S. art (see color pages). The original intent, outlined by American Federation of Arts Director Harris K. Prior, was to document the proposition: "Nowhere in the world can man live a complete life without the beneficent presence of the visual arts. In America, because of the highly mechanized civilization and the abundance of leisure time, they are perhaps even more necessary than elsewhere...
...import quotas cause all sorts of ruckus abroad. Though the U.S. consumes 55% of the free world's oil. it has only 15% of the free world's reserves, enough to last a dozen years at current production rates. As consumption rises, the U.S. must depend increasingly on foreign oil if it wants to maintain even that slim ration...
...months the last holdout at the White House, President Eisenhower has at long last decided to dispense with the services of Perennial Politico Harold Stassen, the Administration's disarmament adviser, who stirred up a ruckus over Vice President Nixon's renomination in 1956, recently has undermined Secretary of State Dulles' disarmament policy by agitating for an agreement with Russia to end atomic tests. The details of Childe Harold's departure have not yet been decided, but he knows the route to the door...