Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tiernan. Some of the ladies felt a little trepidation. Pug-nosed, cheerful Monsignor Tiernan, the boys' old World War I chaplain, had never been a stern watchdog and he didn't look like one. His charges-staid-looking Midwest businessmen-were kicking up a mild and happy uproar when the train pulled out. They were the boys of Harry Truman's old Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, A.E.F., on their way to Washington for the big show...
...stumbled about among the drying wash and tumbling babies. There and later in Pinsk, young Weizmann studied the Torah, got his first furtive glimpses of scientific books (forbidden in the orthodox cheder), and argued Zionism, socialism and anarchism with his friends. The Weizmann home was almost always in an uproar. "They've got to be fed," Chaim's mother would cry from the kitchen, "or they won't have the strength to shout...
...game with Anderson College (13-6) in November. President Ashby, a football fan, declared a holiday to celebrate. The Smith group of teachers and their student followers disdainfully held classes anyway. Later, in a speech to Detroit alumni, President Ashby remarked that most of the student troublemakers in the uproar over the sacking of Akeley came from one race and one locality. The S.A.C.s decided that he was referring to Olivet's Jewish students from New York, demanded at a mass meeting what he meant by "race." "Why, the human race," said Ashby inconclusively, and would say no more...
...height of the uproar, the school board closed the school temporarily. Last week, with the school in holiday recess, Twinsburg was split down the middle. One group of citizens had formed a Citizens' League, given both Powell and the school board a vote of confidence. Other parents, angered, had lined up the Real Estate Owners Association, had collected 183 signatures calling for dismissal of the board. That was more than 15% of the township's voters-enough to bring their demand into the courts...
Orson's fascination with the echoes of his own voice on the sound track (a hangover from Citizen Kane) sometimes makes his Macbeth resemble an unmannerly uproar in a coal mine. The on-again-off-again use of a Scotch burr by some of the actors, including the star, does not help; but the production's main fault is that Welles and his leading lady (Jeanette Nolan) play their roles, for most of 95 minutes, at the top of their lungs...