Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day Mendès plunged all of France into one of the most turbulent weeks in the history of the Fourth Republic. Official Paris was in an uproar, with ministers scurrying, newspapers trumpeting, Parliament fragmenting into anxious little knots of excited, gossipy Deputies. The Premier was peevish. To his bitterly divided Cabinet (12 against, 13 for EDC), he reported sourly that France had been "dragged through the mud" at Brussels. This was a foretaste, Mendès said, of how EDC would work: instead of France controlling Germany, Brussels had shown that Benelux and Italy would "gang up" with...
...court of inquiry was held, of course. The whole countryside had been in an uproar of search parties ever since the Hooft baby had disappeared; but when everyone realized that Harry had meant no harm, the case was dropped. "You'll be let off, boy," said his grandfather, and sent Harry home...
...midst of the uproar over atomic energy and the TVA one day last week, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington rose on the Senate floor to change the subject. The first Secretary of the Air Force (1947-50) and today the Senate's most informed man on air power, Symington brought up a problem which hardly anyone else was thinking about: intercontinental ballistic missiles...
...basic purpose, the National Exchange Club (about 1,500 chapters with 100,000 members) seeks to promote "an exchange of ideas." Last week Exchange's biggest state, California (165 chapters and 6,000 members), was in an uproar over some ideas which national headquarters found unexchangeable...
...uproar forced Chancellor Adenauer to call off his plans for the information ministry. But last week the government quietly announced the formation of a "press coordinating committee" under Christian-Democratic Deputy Otto Lenz, who had been scheduled to head the original ministry of information. All over Germany this week, the free press locked arms to prevent the government from slipping through the back door what it had not succeeded in bringing in through the front...