Word: ruckuses
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...Verdict. In the mounting ruckus, calmness and common sense were lost. By last week the Kappa Alpha fraternity had threatened to pull out of Rollins en masse unless Wagner resigned. Someone put a "For Sale" sign in front of Wagner's house as an unmistakable hint. Some seniors demanded that ex-President Holt hand out their diplomas rather than Wagner. _ And even Hamilton Holt, Wagner's original sponsor, reversing himself, lent his powerful voice to the anti-Wagner camp...
Shortly after we arrived here, the Reducator ruckus broke open and a number of professors were maligned for actively supporting liberal candidates in the election campaign last fall...
...every sniff, hiss and boo they responded with rousing "Ahhs!" All in all, the exhibition raised a splendid ruckus...
...week's end, Adam Hats flatly denied in a full page ad in the N.Y. Times that it had been pressured into dropping Pearson. Actually, it said, it had notified Pearson a full month before the McCarthy ruckus that his contract would not be renewed, because it was switching from radio advertising into newspapers and magazines. Said Adam Hats: "It is therefore obviously impossible that Senator McCarthy's attack upon Mr. Pearson and requested boycott of Adam Hats could have had any influence whatsoever upon our decision...
...ruckus last week over the case, most of Brownsville's townspeople backed Dr. Stephens. So did fellow doctors, though none could raise his voice for fear that he, too, would find the doors of Mercy Hospital shut in his patients' faces...