Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minister of Production lost a sandal (and kicked the other off as he fled), while the Minister of Defense was knocked flat. In the pandemonium that followed, Nehru seized a policeman's steel-tipped bamboo lathi and, brandishing it aloft, cried at the crowd: "Stop this uproar...
...this minor skirmish grows an increasing uproar that causes the ruin of Dr. Charles Boyer, titular head of the clinic, disrupts the budding romance between Widmark and Bacall, drives most of the inmates into an all-night binge, and sends hysterical John Kerr off to the river, bent on suicide. By this time, moviegoers have difficulty distinguishing the sane from the unbalanced...
...news of Harrington's criminal record caused an uproar in Shawnee. A local printer donated his services to print up grand-jury petition forms, and overnight more than 350 indignant Shawneeans signed petitions to call a special grand jury (only 100 signatures are required...
...exchange boosted its margin requirements on Maine potato futures from $240 per 450-bag contract to $800 for traders who wanted to speculate in potatoes. But the margin boost did little good. Last fortnight, when delivery time for May potatoes arrived, the Mercantile Exchange found itself in the worst uproar since it first started trading in potatoes...
...uproar, Bob Young had his way handily when it came to a vote. By 4,889,495 shares to 457,129, the Central's stockholders agreed to pay the bill for the proxy fight, and postponed any decision on cumulative voting by an equally wide margin. Every Central director was re-elected overwhelmingly, and the stockholders also approved a stock option plan for Central President Alfred E. Perlman, by which he can buy 32,000 shares at $19.88 per share, over a period of years, thus stand to net a capital-gain profit of $672,000 (at current prices...