Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, with the West now trying to make them realize a common need&#defense against Communism-the Arab League states broke into a noisy quarrel. The uproar was provoked by Iraq's decision to join a defense alliance with NATO member Turkey. Iraq's pact collided with the league's strictures against members joining in outside alliance. More to the point, it meant that Iraq, second strongest of the Arab nations, was openly challenging Egypt's position as the presumed leader of the Arab world...
...Washington police force, was drinking at a bar next door; he had deserted his post at the door to the presidential box, through which the assassin passed. Who was Parker? A questionable type with black marks on his police-force record (all kept from Lincoln). There was an uproar from the theater and a terrible cry that the President had been shot, but Parker was not heard from until 6 the next morning, when he turned in a streetwalker to show that he had not been idle. Never punished, Parker served three more years on the force before...
...Salvador (pop. 2,110,000), a stable little coffeegrower, is neutral in favor of Figueres in the current uproar...
...when she can reckon by 7 p.m. how many are staying for dinner and by 10 how many for the night. Life at Finca Vigia is, as she once reported it, a "perpetual weekend . . . involving time, space, motion, noise, animals and personalities, always approaching but seldom actually attaining complete uproar...
Sutherland tried to remain aloof from last week's uproar, but he could not resist one last rueful word: "I took up portrait painting by accident. Although this commission was interesting, I enormously regret I was asked to paint a national hero. People have their own conception of what a hero is like and too many things other than artistic are involved. I don't think, if I were asked again, that I would...