Word: uprear
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...Blest be the Muses who uprear'd this band...
...Fuehrer's resignation and the subsequent liberation of the Jews caused such an uprear in Italy that Mussolini retired to dedicate himself to "my family and home." Isenberg's reports continue. Reverberations in Russia caused Stalin to commit suicide after admitting that communism was a failure and recommending that a democracy based on the United States government be established...
...seventh rubber or thereabouts, for instance, Mr. Culbertson threw down his hand with words which even kibitzers lack the temerity to repeat, and remarked that he "refused to play another card until Hal Sims had removed his big feet from his (Culbertson's) side of the table." When the uprear had subsided enough for articulate speech to be heard, Mrs. Culbertson revealed that it was her foot that her husband had encountered. A slight hush fell on the combatants, and Ely ordered the steward to draw a chalk line on the floor under the middle of the table "to avoid...
...opening of the convention, the delegates were in a constant uprear but after a few minutes they quieted down, and the scene took on all the aspects of a National Convention
...stubborn people, that not by the torch nor by the sword may Belgium be avenged. For that there is no atonement. The burning of every German city and the death of every man who defends his invaded country would not bring back one murdered Belgian citizen, would not uprear one razed hamlet, would not make clean...