Word: ruckuses
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Anacostia High School staged the biggest ruckus. There, 300 white students stayed away from their classes, while 300 more gathered outside the building to boo the Negroes who had recently been transferred to the school. Meanwhile, at Mc-Kinley High School, 150 students began a similar demonstration. Next day, the trouble spread to six junior high schools. Finally, Superintendent of Schools Hobart Corning warned the 2,800 strikers that unless they came back to school, they would disqualify themselves for all school privileges, would be denied the right to play on teams or to run for club offices. Just...
Last week at 72, Organist Mayer found himself the center of a major ruckus that involved socialites and Senators, a fair share of Army brass and two Presidents of the U.S. The crux of the matter: Mayer is past the compulsory retirement age for civil servants, and he is not ready to retire...
...caste mistress in his house. The upright Singh, married and the father of children, was outraged. He charged the Brahman with polluting the neighborhood and demanded that the priest get rid of his girl friend. The priest refused; angry words flew; other Brahmans and other Thakores joined the ruckus. Before it was over, the priest and three of his relatives lay dead...
With that storm passed. Stoddard found himself headed into another. This time the cause of the ruckus was a teacher's manual about UNESCO that Stoddard had hoped to use in the schools. Some citizens, how ever, led by Hearst's Herald & Express, had other ideas. UNESCO, the critics charged, tended to subvert nationalism in favor of one world, and this in turn was closely akin to Communist international ism. The local American Legion joined the attack, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars passed a resolution condemning "this planned corruption of the American children's minds." Eventually...
...question which had started the whole ruckus-"Does cigarette smoking eventually cause lung cancer?"-the statisticians had to hedge. They did not yet have enough cases to be certain. But on the basis of gleanings to date, they concluded that death from lung cancer is three to nine times as common among cigarette smokers as among nonsmokers, and five to 16 times as common among those who smoke a pack a day or more...