Word: furor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Furor at Home. Last week the fate of Frogman Lionel ("Buster") Crabb, wartime hero in the Royal Navy, was giving Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden one of the most awkward times of his political career. In the House of Commons, Sir Anthony tried to dismiss the whole matter: "It would not be in the public interest to disclose the circumstances in which Commander Crabb is presumed to have met his death." But then he added mysteriously: "I think it necessary, in the special circumstances of this case, to make it clear that what was done was done without the authority...
...evasion did not dispel curiosity; it doubled it. The obvious inference was that Commander Crabb had been employed by some secret arm of the government. Whatever the intelligence agency hoped to learn under the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze was plainly not worth the risk of being caught at it. The furor swelled. Britain's Labor leaders had a special reason for pressing the attack. They were embarrassed by rank-and-file criticism that they had been unmannerly to B. & K. at the famous dinner party (TIME, May 7) and were anxious to convict Sir Anthony of even cruder mistreatment...
After noting the historical fact that Kelly had caused a slight furor on his last appearance here in 1952, Capp settled down to the business at hand. "We all know what we're here for," he said. "We're here to raise money to louse up those happy natives in Delhi...
Forces of Change. Before it fanned out across the country, most of the political furor swirled around one man: Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture. He took it calmly. Seated firmly behind his Washington desk, listening to politicians warn him that his policies are going to lose the election, Secretary Benson glanced often at a motto, in small type, pasted to the marble base of his pen and pencil set, where only he could see it. "Oh Lord," it says, "give us men with a mandate higher than the ballot...
...could impart no special information on "The Meaning of Geneva," they were genuinely curious about what he would have to say. Whig-Clio undoubtedly was interested to some degree in the publicity of a Hiss appearance, but of course had no notion that it would create such an unfortunate furor...