Word: ruckuses
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...congressional ruckus was symptomatic of a rising climate in Washington of suspicion and concern about the Reagan Administration's tactics in dealing with Nicaragua. The Administration has long charged the Sandinista regime with funneling arms to and fomenting revolution in neighboring El Salvador at the behest of Cuba and the Soviet Union. The White House has continuously vowed to halt that activity by any means possible. Among those means has been backing the contras, on the grounds that their function has been to interdict the flow of arms from Nicaragua...
Back in 1944 Franklin Roosevelt created a ruckus when he went into a voting booth at his home in Hyde Park, N.Y., and ran into some new voting machines. The best-known voice of the century echoed through the curtains: "Damn." F.D.R. was just that kind...
...totem, her bikini two bright tattoos. A shiver or two later, she has backflipped off the dock and sliced into the cold water. As sentimental drama, the moment is effective; as cinema, it is unremarkable; as a display of new-fashioned star quality, it is radiant. But, oh, the ruckus it raised, as the movie reeled surprisingly toward blockbuster status last winter and spring. No audience could watch Jane without murmuring in tones of awe, "Look...
...Ruckus--Ed Burke...
...Ruckus--Ed Burke...