Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wounded. The other shot two of the assassins dead and bloodied the head of the third with a blow from his emptied Sten gun. A hospital attendant who had been handing out the week's paychecks to the help was also killed. Two others were wounded. In the uproar Hadjigeorghiu and the bleeding gunman bolted off. It was hide-and-seek again...
From Chicago, U.S.A. came a turbulent uproar. In a year when pundits were talking about "the American consensus" and the "reign of moderation," the Democratic immoderates charged full tilt into the nominating arena and set up a clangor that all but drowned out the normal sounds of the nation. The planning for next week's Republican Convention seemed to fall off to a whisper. And even the extraordinary White House meeting of the President, the Secretary of State and congressional leaders on the Suez crisis (see Foreign Relations) took on some aspects of a sideshow because the top Democrats...
...back to Texas to loll under the sun on his LBJ Ranch at Stonewall, Texas, made little if any effort to round up delegates outside the 56 pledged to him from his home state. But last week-on the very day that Harry Truman threw the convention into an uproar-Lyndon Johnson strode into the center of the presidential ring...
Greece, though a considerable maritime power, was the only nation besides Egypt to refuse to attend the conference. How could a Greek Foreign Minister go to London when Cyprus is in an uproar...
...Pennsylvania vigorously denied the charge, but last week, amidst the swelling uproar, the Interstate Commerce Commission announced a full-scale investigation of the whole passenger problem. Save for the World War II years, the railroads say that they have been losing money steadily on passengers during the past quarter century. By official ICC computation the passenger loss for Class I railroads (those grossing more than $3,000,000 annually) reached a staggering $642 million in 1952, rose to $705 million in 1953, dropped slightly to $670 million in 1954 and $636 million in 1955. The ICC arrived at these figures...