Word: rumpusing
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...Good Hot Rumpus. Next day Carl Vinson rose on the House floor, determined to make the best of things. He read the letter from Kennedy, which declared: "Your devotion to our continued military effectiveness is admired and appreciated." He read the letter from McNamara. which promised a restudy of the RS-70 in light of the Congressman's views. Vinson insisted that his strategy all along had been merely to raise a fuss over the RS-70 that would force the Administration to pay closer heed to congressional advice on military affairs. "We had to raise a good...
...never been so busy studying himself-on the couch and in the laboratory, in ancient ruins and suburban rumpus rooms. Sociologists make bestsellers out of the abuses of the present, archaeologists fashion books-of-the-month out of the uses of the past, and German Writer Herbert Wendt, who has popularized natural science and prehistory in three previous books, now turns his hand to ethnology...
...Herald Tribune's Jay Harrison, who detected "a goddess performing among us." She has spent six seasons singing on the Community Concert circuit and in 1955 broke into opera as the lead in the NBC Tosca. Casting a Negro in the role, says Leontyne composedly, "created quite a rumpus, but it was a successful rumpus." At any rate, she feels that Bess was good preparation for Tosca: "Both were strumpets, only Tosca dressed better...
From Australia last week, terrible-tempered Butch Buchholz, 20, and Barry MacKay, 25, dealt another blow to U.S. amateur tennis. Having barely finished throwing the last racket, raising the last locker-room rumpus and blowing the last match to the Italians in the Davis Cup eliminations (TIME, Dec. 26), Buchholz and MacKay announced that they were fed up with the "hypocrisy" of amateur tennis and were turning...
...Association to agitate against state milk laws that made it easy to keep prices high, particularly a 30-year-old law forbidding the sale of milk in economy-size half-gallon and gallon jugs. Holding public meetings, going on radio and TV pressuring legislators, the women raised such a rumpus that Connecticut's legislature passed a pair of bills legalizing both half-gallon and gallon jugs. But even then milk prices stayed high until a supermarket chain began a price...