Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tynan might be right. Certainly millions of English-speaking people use it every day as verb, noun and adjective, as an expletive, an oath, and even a term of endearment. But, as Tynan quickly learned from the uproar that followed his pronouncement, there is still a considerable gap between private usage and public sensibility. The novel may reflect life, but life does not yet completely imitate fiction...
...uproar died down, and if Luci Baines Johnson, 18, had indeed taken her boyfriend Pat Nugent, 22, down to the LBJ Ranch specifically to ask dad's permission to marry, she just wasn't talking about it. "My personal life is my own," said Luci, as she returned to classes at Georgetown University's School of Nursing. Pat was doggedly silent, too. Ever since he started dating Luci last summer, friends have been kidding him about not getting drafted, but now he is putting a stop to that by going on active duty soon, probably...
They are surely not the U.S. majority. Many Americans have nagging qualms about U.S. involvement in a killing war. But the few who openly attack their country's position with demonstrations and draft-card burnings create a worldwide distortion of the U.S. mood. French radio coverage of the uproar, at least at first, made the U.S. seem split by a profound division of opinion. English demonstrators broke out signs that said WE WANT JOHNSON CRUCIFIED. From his sickbed, President Johnson expressed "surprise that any one citizen would feel toward his country in a way that is not consistent with...
...conclusion that its outcome is all Mrs. Husband's fault. Chances are that her spouse deliberately, if unconsciously, chose just such an unobliging mate-"to minimize the danger," as Berne puts it, "of overtaxing his disturbed potency, which he can now blame on her." Another game is called Uproar, and while it is most commonly played by married couples anxious to avoid sexual intimacy, it is also played, on other occasions and for other reasons, by all mankind...
Despite this brave tempest-in-a-tea-pot attitude, Pearson's government has been sorely tried by more or less the same sort of affair throughout its two-year administration. In December 1963 Pearson's Postmaster General resigned amid a parliamentary uproar over the appointment of defeated Liberal candidates as "consultants." The next to go was a Minister Without Portfolio who resigned after two Montreal dailies reported that he took a $10,000 payoff to help some Quebec race-track promoters pick up a franchise. A Quebec royal commission last September accused a Liberal member of the Commons...