Word: uproarous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There was no doubt among Solidarity's leaders that Walesa should attend the session. What was at issue was whether he should be authorized to negotiate alone on the behalf of the entire diverse union. "We want democracy, not a dictatorship!" yelled one commission member above the raucous uproar at the meeting. Shouted Radical Jan Rolicz, who is challenging Walesa's current efforts to hold back the organization he helped to found: "The time has come to think about a personnel change in the union, even though Walesa is still a symbol of unity." Jozef Dudek, another radical...
...days before. Finally it cast off. Then, joining the flotilla of naval vessels hovering anxiously beyond the twelve-nautical-mi. limit, Soviet "Whiskey"-class submarine No. 137 headed for its home base at Baltiysk, near the port of Kaliningrad. So ended, peacefully enough, the diplomatic uproar that began when Sweden discovered the sub on a reef in a restricted military zone only nine miles from Karlskrona, an ultrasensitive naval base on the Baltic Sea. The incursion of the sub, said Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin last week, was "the most flagrant violation of Swedish territory since World War II." Then Falldin...
Preferring to avoid another cloak-and-dagger uproar, the Administration appears to be listening to the congressional complaints. "Some changes will be made to meet their objections," an Administration official acknowledges...
Steven Beyer, the creator of the work, never intended his sculpture to "cause such an uproar." He said this work that he based the questions on the "hierarchy of human needs developed by psychologist Abraham Maslow...
...only significant reforms--legalization of Black labor unions and efforts to educate a middle class of Blacks-stem directly from the shortage of skilled labor facing South African industrialists. Some doors have opened for Blacks, but segregated washrooms, restaurants and hospitals predominate. And a public uproar was stirred recently a Johannesburgh high school fielded two black youths on its rugby team, ultimately leading to the removal of both athletes...