Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand. Said Brannan: "I would rather debate issues on an intellectual plane." Replied Thornton in a letter to Brannan: "I will have no more to say to a preliminary fighter until he has proved himself." That same day the Denver Post took editorial notice of the uproar. To the cow-milkin', wheat-shockin', cotton-pickin' and calf-ropin' contests, noted the Post, one more competition should be added: "Bull-throwin...
...Force Fighter Command as the day of missiles draws closer (see FOREIGN NEWS). In the U.S. a whiff of a plan formulated by Chairman Arthur Radford of the Joint Chiefs to cut the U.S. armed forces by 800,000 men over the next four years caused a press uproar last fortnight (TIME, July 23). In the absence of open Pentagon discussion, U.S. moves in Britain's direction were best visible last week as straws in the wind. The straws...
...Clark Street in Chicago, two men met to talk business. The deal: how to muscle into the thriving Chicago Restaurant Association and take control of it. Said James Weinberg to Paul ("Needle Nose") Labriola: "We'll have to kill Teitelbaum, but we don't want a big uproar in the papers. We'll push him out of his office window. He's in income-tax trouble, and everybody will think it was suicide...
...longer seems as necessary," he said, summing up the cold war, because the Russians may now be moving "towards a rapprochement with the concepts of the West." Pineau failed even to sway several members of his own diplomatic entourage. As he flew back to Paris to face an uproar of press criticism, a press attache of the French embassy in Washington quietly passed the word that during his visit Christian Pineau had frequently spoken for himself and not for France...
...audience of millions, "to have their physical appearances assessed and judged as in a cattle market," as the Times of Karachi put it. "A disgrace to the Eastern social order and conventions," proclaimed the head of the powerful Brotherhood of Mullahs. In the face of the uproar, the contest promoters gave up. "We are back in Victorian error," sighed...