Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What a lot of hay (as they say in Paris), what a lot of commotion! The city was in an uproar. Traffic was at a standstill near the Opera. Police were helpless. Was it another strike? Was it the Communist coup which panicky rumors had predicted for days? Nothing of the kind. The "Catherinettes" were on the march...
...Transportation Office was oblivious to Vishinsky but in an uproar over a chauffeur called Gilbert, who was missing ("He couldn't take this long for lunch...
...stormy uproar punctuated by Chairman Thomas' gavel and boos from the audience, Witness Lawson was asked four times whether he was or ever had been a Communist Party member. Four times Lawson challenged the committee's right to ask, and refused to answer. When Lawson was ordered from the stand (and contempt proceedings against him started), a committee investigator produced copies of Communist registration cards for 1944. Number 47275, he said, was in the name of John Howard Lawson...
From hotels, the Dartmouth lads turned to the Yard, where they succeeded in making a fairly substantial uproar on the night before the game...
...opportunism of John L. Lewis to prove that the social and economic climate of the New Deal made almost anything possible, that spending union funds on industrial organization was not a gamble. Green was appalled by the defection of his friend John Lewis to the C.I.O. and by the uproar which attended it. When Lewis bloodied Bill Hutcheson's face during the tense 1935 convention, Green reprimanded him from the platform...