Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he sat in the uproar of the National Assembly in Paris, Pouvanaa Oopa, sole representative of Tahiti and its sister Pacific islands of French Polynesia, was the mildest of men. But back home in peaceful Tahiti, Pouvanaa Oopa became a terror in paradise...
Even the London Times, that everlasting defender of conventional suitability, complained that the tricorn, when worn as Sir George wanted it, presents "a formidable challenge to all but the most piquant of faces." Sir George could not understand what the uproar was about, pointed with pride to "the little gold blob," adding: "Very feminine, that...
Bans & Brickbats. It seems strange that such views, widely accepted now, should have caused an uproar. But Married Love was published in 1918. Though it soon became a runaway bestseller in Britain, it remained banned in the U.S, as obscene until 1931, when Judge John M. Woolsey cleared it. (He later did the same for James Joyce's Ulysses.) Hard on the heels of Married Love, red-haired Author Stopes turned out Wise Parenthood. The idea of using artificial contraceptives to space pregnancies was then as repugnant to the Church of England as to the Church of Rome...
...General Edmund ("Pat") Brown, demanded that Knowland disown responsibility for use of the tract, drew only the surprisingly lame comment: "I don't think I'm called upon to agree or disagree with every piece of material that comes to my attention." All but lost in the uproar was Helen Knowland's plea that she had never known about Kamp's background-although any newspaper reader would remember his association with Gerald B. Winrod, Gerald L.K. Smith et al. It was left to Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn to make the political riposte. Said...
Some of the faux pas of which over-exuberant HSA directors were guilty included implied coercion of independent concessionaires, poor presentation of the organization's advantages, and even lowered profits as the price of membership. All this uproar came through misjudgment. Burke and the other directors believed that "our greatest problem would come from Harvard Square merchants, not from the students themselves...