Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baffled, the Army called in the Navy, and the Navy, which had noise trouble of its own, appealed to Biologist Charles H. Blake of M.I.T. What subsea gremlin, they asked, was making the uproar? "Fish," said Professor Blake...
...Nations Organization world capital. But, like many another Connecticut and Westchester County town, it couldn't make up its mind. Last week it held an election to settle the matter. Of the 7,000 who voted, 5,000 were against being adopted. But this did not quiet the uproar. Only a minority of the town's 20,000 registered voters had troubled to vote...
...uproar failed to disturb the caretaker at Westchester County's exclusive Blind Brook Country Club. "Nothing will happen to this club," he predicted. "The members will be inviting those UNO fellows over to play golf and everything will be all right...
Things were far from hopeless-at a Madison Square Garden rally honoring Vladimir Lenin he pointed out that strikes were being conducted "on a high level," that the present vast uproar over wages might well get bigger and louder, that corporations were "lousy with money...
...Uproar, Silence. Next day, correspondents and photographers jammed into the opening session of the conference in the Throne Room, whither princes of the Japanese imperial blood once came to receive their Korean vassals. Shaggy Koreans crept between the chairs, stood on benches, snapped hundreds of pictures. A few appeared as blobs in the Korean press next morning...