Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian TU-104 jet transport that landed at London last week (see FOREIGN NEWS) caused a furious uproar in the British press. One panicked commentator called it "a world beater." The Daily Mail called it "more advanced than anything likely to be available in Britain or the U.S. for at least three years...
...spring crept up on the entertainment world, lovebirds, young and middle-agish. began to warble of making nests, although their fluty chirps were all but drowned out by the quasi-romantic uproar emanating from the welter of Kelly-Rainier prenuptial rites (see PRESS). Italy's limpid-eyed Cinemorsel Marisa Pavan, 23, an Oscar nominee for her supporting role in The Rose Tattoo, was going to marry France's dashing Cinemale Jean Pierre Aumont this summer; she thought he was "about 42" (he is 46), pooh-poohed his Riviera trysts with Grace Kelly as "just a publicity stunt...
...annual subsidy Britain has been paying Jordan, Hussein declined to give up his treaty and his financial ties with London. Why should he trade the dependability of the British Exchequer for bondage to the Saudi royal family, blood enemies of his Hashemite clan? He seemed genuinely shocked by the uproar in Britain over the removal of Glubb, and sent personal word to Anthony Eden asking him to countermand the order withdrawing 15 of the Arab Legion's remaining British officers...
...uproar began when an anonymous tipster spotted 18 light (25 tons) Walker Bulldog tanks loading aboard the freighter James Monroe in New York Harbor. Destination, plainly marked: Saudi Arabia. The tipster telephoned the United Press; the U.P. finally got the State Department in Washington to confirm the shipment, and printed the story. Cried the Israeli embassy: "Utterly beyond our comprehension." Within hours, Israel's friends in the Senate were in full cry. Their argument was a strong one: 1) the dispatch of tanks to Arab nations violates the declared U.S. policy of discouraging an arms race in the Middle...
...work with my mind?" Ellen, another patient, had a slight limp caused by a spinal injury at the age of two. It did not prevent her walking indoors, but she insisted: "I just can't cross the street." And Mr. Juskalian, a paraplegic, kept the hospital in an uproar by being disagreeable to everybody...