Word: furor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomatic furor which blazed up with the flyers' death last month raged on. A ban by A.F.L. longshoremen on ships loading UNRRA supplies for Yugoslavia swelled from an impromptu wildcat walkout to an official statement of union policy. Cried the longshoremen's Joe Ryan: "None of those ships will be loaded until proper action is taken against those who are responsible for shooting down our planes." Veterans' posts, Congressmen, many a fierce U.S. citizen chimed...
Donovan had been careful to say that the agency should have no police power either at home or abroad. But the furor had its effect. In the end Donovan's idea of an independent agency went down the drain...
Twice George ("Old Blood & Guts") Patton had been stripped of his command. The first time was after a public furor in the U.S. over his slapping and abusing a shell-shocked soldier in a Sicilian hospital. (Technically, he remained head of the Seventh Army, but it was a phantom Army with no divisions.) For the old war horse, that was a bitter period. One day he visited Fifth Army headquarters before Cassino, borrowed Mark Clark's Packard, and in this conspicuous vehicle rode recklessly up to the front lines. When he could ride no farther...
...spite of accusations of greed, the Russians have been less aggressive in power politics than any of the larger nations. No number of killings in Greece, Sorokin pointed out, could cause the furor that arose in newspapers and diplomatic circles over the death of 16 Poles...
...President still seemed a little startled at the furor he caused on personal expeditions in the capital. Last week, when he hustled out to open his safety deposit box at a Washington bank, he virtually tied up noon-hour traffic in the street outside. But his informality, his habit of early rising had begun to seem natural. So did the folksy atmosphere which visitors imparted to White House anterooms. Newsmen now rated callers as OFs (Old Friends) and PRs (Payers of Respects...