Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles de Gaulle rose quickly, angrily. His words cut across a legislative uproar: "With regard to the drama of 1940, there were many differences then between men and groups. I did not go to Vichy then, but many who were there believed they were serving their country in their own ways. It was possible to have different conceptions of serving one's country...
...industrial noise is harder on the nerves than the brain-battering din of riveting. In one department of Bell Aircraft Corp.'s huge B-29 plant near Marietta, Ga., dominated by the monstrous chatter of some 450 riveters, conversation has been by lipreading. The uproar has undoubtedly played a big part in the heavy turnover and absenteeism among the riveters, half of whom are women...
...uproar swelled, the homeward-bound Congressmen wearily realized that the price for getting rid of Will Clayton had been too high. One of their first jobs after the election recess will probably be to patch up the bill...
Chinese Burial. By taking Wilson's side, the President set off a startlingly loud Washington uproar. Nelson's friends -who included a group of the New Deal's most expert hatchet men-called his Presidential mission a "Chinese burial." They charged that the man who was fighting for "the little fellow" was being "sent to Siberia," had been given a "kick in the teeth...
...weeks ago Negro soldiers rode through Duck Hill firing blanks, frightening the whites out of their wits. Recently at Brookley Field, Ala. Negro troops fired on M.P. s who came into their barracks looking for a man supposed to have assaulted a bootlegger. Their white general quelled the uproar, mainly by diplomatic handling of his angry troops...