Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crucial U.S. nuclear-weapons tests at Eniwetok Proving Grounds-tests of such basic defenses as the first nuclear-tipped ground-to-air antiaircraft missile, the first deep-water anti-submarine nuclear depth charge and the low-radioactivity "clean" bomb-the uproar over the tests and their fallout got both more shrill in its public aspects and more sensible in its scientific debate...
TIME's story about corruption in President Garcia's Philippine administration caused an uproar in Manila last week. Pro-government newspapers denounced it in banner headlines; a copy of the issue was burned on the floor of Congress. Most denunciations centered not on the story's facts but on the propriety of printing them. Challenging anybody to deny the facts, Manila Times Columnist Alejandro Roces wrote: "Unless we take a cold sober look at ourselves, we can expect only ruin and even more critical remarks...
...First." Keats's book is full of prickly opinions, sure to produce uproar and perhaps even thoughtful debate; e.g., football costs too much, physically educates the boys who need it least; school administrators should run things only from day to day, and "ask us first" if they want to make changes...
This year Johnson's showy record-writing has been abetted considerably by the ineptness of Senate Republican leaders and the slow motion at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. After the uproar over the success of Sputnik, it was Johnson, as chairman of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, who grabbed the initiative (and the headlines), set up hearings, heard expert testimony from about 200 of the top men in the Defense Department, the armed services, science and industry. So successful was he in capturing the attention of press and colleagues that he produced his own "State of the Union" message...
During the week's uproar. President Sukarno seemed the most relaxed Indonesian. In Tokyo, on the last leg of a jaunt through Asia, he went with his staff to a geisha party at the Tskuki No lye (House of the Moon) and renewed a fond acquaintance with a pretty, 29-year-old geisha named Keiko Isozaki, whom he had known during World War II in the Japanese-occupied Celebes where she was entertaining the Japanese troops and he was a Japanese supporter. Next day, Sukarno's Imperial Hotel suite had a hospital hush until late in the afternoon...