Word: furor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington lawmakers and officials report an extraordinary tide of budget-criticizing mail. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey still gets sackfuls of letters applauding his furor-stirring prediction that continued high taxes would eventually bring on a hair-curling depression (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). New Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges has been getting 50 cut-that-budget letters a day-"a surprising volume," he says. Observed a Bridges aide after studying the boss's mail: "The public complacency of recent years about Government spending has definitely worn...
Supply & Demand. Amidst the furor, up stepped Hines Baker, president of Humble Oil Refining Co., biggest U.S. domestic producer (300,000 bbl. daily), to make his case for the industry. Humble had supplied almost 50% of all the oil shipped to Europe in November and December-and it was also Humble that had set the pattern for the recent industrywide price rise by boosting the price it pays well-operators for crude oil. Said President Baker: "Once the Suez was closed, Europe was bound to have a shortage. In a situation like this, no one man, no one company...
...true prophet in his own house, she added: "Most of the time what he thinks is true." Asked whether she wished that Charlie would resign from the Cabinet, Jessie Wilson said yes. "He has earned the right to take it easy now," she explained. Then she touched off a furor of her own: "A good many of the Cabinet feel the same way. They have worked hard for four years, and they think the time has come to turn things over to others...
Many of the nations which withdrew sincerely believed that to play in the Olympics with warring nations would be contrary to the spirit of the Games. Unfortunately, their withdrawals aggravate world stresses, rather than ease them. In the furor, the Olympic Games and the ideals behind them have been all but forgotten...
...puzzle. "The archaeologists tell us that the Dead Sea caves are hot and dark," he writes. "The same might be said of the controversy which has raged around their contents. At this point, however, it might be healthy to stand back a little from the din and furor and clouds of dust and try to appreciate the scriptures of the Brotherhood simply from the point of view of what they offer to religious thought and insight. They represent an experience which has been repeated often enough in history-the experience of the typical nonconformist who combines, by a strange...