Word: ruckuses
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...uncovered the scandal (TIME, June 4), the Journal has never once admitted the existence of a Teamster plot to control law enforcement. Instead. the Journal has scoffed that the Oregonian is interested chiefly in "self-glorification,'' and therefore has exaggerated its charges of Teamster involvement in the ruckus over rackets - which the Journal views as essentially a battle between hoodlums...
...drum, a road-scraper, a Mickey Mouse hat, a bicycle, lollipops, a toy tractor from the President. As if proof were needed that children are the same the world over, he presided at a children's party at the Saudi Arabian embassy and started a typical childlike ruckus of his own. Photographers asked him. to kiss a little American girl, Mary Harris, granddaughter of U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia George Wadsworth. The prince tried to oblige, was repulsed. With that, Mashhur brandished a small fist, whacked the tearful girl on the shoulder, got his buss...
Backfire. In Chicago, after he burgled the Waltz Inn, got $6.95 and a .25-cal. automatic, Charles J. Walsh took the loot to a friend's house, accidentally shot himself in the leg while gloating over the gun, confessed all to cops who arrived to investigate the ruckus...
Vellucci started his political career using much the same strategy when he ran for the school committee in 1951. By raising a ruckus over "stuffy classrooms" and "lighting so bad it was blinding the kids," Vellucci won himself a post on the committee and was re-elected two years later by an even bigger vote. 'I made a hell of a fuss," Vellucci reminisces. "I ran against professors and seasoned politicians, big businessmen and lawyers, and I beat them...
...Portrait Painter Pietro Annigoni, who touched off the ruckus, most modern restorers are no more civilized than scalp-lifting red Indians. "The war did not destroy a greater number of works of art [than they]," said he. "I do not doubt the meticulous care employed by these renovators, nor their chemical skill, but I am terrified by the contemplation of these qualities in such hands as theirs...