Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Noisy Uproar. Indians, who had long dismissed such notions as cold war fantasies, were alarmed, and never had they been so outspoken over the see-no-evil policies of Jawaharlal Nehru. Socialists marched on the Prime Minister's residence to demand stronger action, and the All-India Students' Congress called for mass demonstrations this week to mark "Throw Back the Aggressors Day"; other youths sought volunteers to man a "Himalayan Border Defense Organization." In London, Indian students inquired about returning home for military conscription. Even many Indian Communists were openly criticizing China's troublemaking...
...month ago, when two U.S. sergeants stationed in Turkey charged that they had been tortured by Turkish cops who accused them of black marketing in currency, the ensuing uproar set official swivel chairs spinning in three capitals. The sergeants' charges, and their detention along with two other U.S. noncoms also charged with black marketing, brought U.S. Ambassador Fletcher Warren hustling back to the U.S. from Turkey for hush-hush consultations with the State Department (TIME. Aug. 24). From Paris, NATO's General Lauris Norstad dispatched a team of crack investigators headed by Major General Joseph Carroll, sometime...
...hours, Florida radio listeners within range of Jacksonville's WAPE-are assaulted by the monotonous beat of rock 'n' roll. A three-minute trickle of news every two hours is the only relief; every station break is loud with the lovesick ape. The continuous uproar is so hypnotic that few who hear it seem anxious-or able-to turn it off. Last week one-year-old WAPE finished its fourth month as the top-rated station in a highly competitive nine-station town...
...Florida State's "Math Camp" in Tallahassee, the boys took time for dormitory bridge. One evening David Hackney, 14, of Daytona Beach, after bidding seven spades, laid down his 13 spades. The ensuing uproar was capped when Edward Root, 16, of St. Petersburg, jotted a formula on the blackboard, ran some figures through a table computer, did some paper work and announced that a bridge player could expect such a hand once in 635,013,559,600 deals...
...midmorning, behind dancing drummers and holy men waving fans and yak tails, the priests began bringing out the gods. The crowd cheered and surged against police lines at the sight of each deity swathed in colored gauze, profusely garlanded and shaded by an umbrella. In a shimmering uproar of crashing gongs they were loaded aboard their high carts. The 29-year-old Raja of Puri, hereditary superintendent of the Jagannath Temple, swept each cart with a golden broom to show that in the eyes of the god all men are lowly...