Word: ruckuses
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...produce the military dunces. How low the Prussian intelligence could sink was clearly demonstrated in the Gary Cooper epic Sergeant York. First, the gangling backwoods bumpkin captured a troop of Germans, mostly by making turkey-calling noises, then picking off the heads that popped up to investigate the ruckus...
...coping with inevitable problems of political partisanship which a meeting of groups so diverse as the Liberal Union and the Young Republicans would produce. As a result, there were charges and counter-charges which could only discredit the Council and hinder the cause of academic freedom. Were the ruckus stirred by a meeting on parietal rules, it would be cause enough for dismay. But on issue like the Fifth Amendment and the loyalty of Harvard teachers, such bungling can be disastrous...
Americans put up with these strictures because Saudi Arabia is, after all, a holy land, and because Aramco values its royalties and the U.S. its big air base. Sometimes Americans lose their tempers; whether they are right or wrong in any particular ruckus, they are usually shipped home. One American was shot and wounded by a Saudi with the victim's own gun. The American was reprimanded for having a weapon, and deported; the shooter was admonished and set free...
...your Feb. 23 article on Marilyn Monroe: Why all the ruckus by the women's clubs about la Monroe? . . . Why not drop the little woman off at the theater featuring Stewart Granger-and everybody should be happy. J. KYLE Los Angeles...
Spot of Sun. Then came last month's storm (TIME, Feb. 9), which broke through Belgium's dikes and turned a catty rumor into a constitutional ruckus. While British and Dutch royalty went personally to the aid of their hard-hit subjects, ailing King Baudouin took off with his father and stepmother for a spot of winter sunshine on the French Riviera. The Brussels press exploded. Newspapers, ordinarily respectful of the monarchy, front-paged pictures of the royal sunbathers side by side with photos of their flooded countrymen. A quick return and a tour of the worst...