Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tradition. He put on a bagpipe recording to drown out the shouts from the street, and remarked of the mob's marksmanship that "if they were cricket players, they would be better shots." He further daunted the unruly natives by walking his dog at the height of the uproar and coolly staring down the nearest mobsters. "Nothing to it," he remarked casually, returning to his window-shattered residence...
...accredit him because he had quit the Communist Party in disgust over Russian repression of the Hungarian revolution. But when fiercely anti-Communist Labor M.P. Walter Padley jumped to the rostrum to demand a debate on this piece of party-lining highhandedness, the congress exploded into an angry uproar. With Cannon looking on from the visitors' gallery, Communist Foulkes defiantly proclaimed that it was nobody else's business whom the E.T.U. accredited. "I don't like Walter Padley," shouted Foulkes, "but I don't try to stop his union sending him here...
...further legalized delay will apparently have to be overset or affirmed on further appeal to the Supreme Court. If no delay is permitted and Negro students are not Faubused into staying away from Central High School on registration day, there will almost certainly be more uproar...
...parades across a stage at her school, as prettily as she is able. A judging committee of six to ten teachers and an equal number of students pick the twelve prettiest. Each girl gives a short speech, and the list of quarter-finalists is narrowed. Then, amid plentiful uproar at assemblies timed to newspaper-edition deadlines, the prettiest teen-ager at each high school in Portland is named Princess of the Rose Festival, a civic promotion of considerable local sanctity...
This shrewdly timed proposal was designed for that ready audience that thinks a summit talk can settle everything, and refuses to believe that Russia would ever resort to brinkmanship. The U.S. could resign itself to a long summer of Russian indignation, parades, protest meetings. All of this uproar might easily obscure the main facts of the week: that in the troubled crossroads of the Middle East, the misty but passionate creed of Arab unity had destroyed every major Western position; and that the West had yet to find a way to live with the creed or to bring it down...