Word: furor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foremost of these is the growing apprehension about the course of U.S. foreign policy. The apprehension was heightened by last week's furor over the 18 tanks for Saudi Arabia (TIME, Feb. 27) principally because this inept episode in diplomacy was read as being symptomatic of high-level inattention to detail. Some of the worry was stirred by eager, trend-pursuing newsmen (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES) and politicians in pursuit of campaign issues. Some of it was well-founded...
...discuss my relations with the Executive." What Hoover did not discuss was the fact that most of the impetus toward the hold order had come from the President, vacationing in Thomasville, Ga. Lacking full information on the transaction, and informed by Press Secretary James Hagerty that there was great furor about it, the President wanted the shipment held until he, as well as the public, could be reassured...
...train their army, in return for air base facilities at Dhahran. The U.S. was slow to fulfill its side of the bargain. Last April the Saudis specifically asked to buy 18 light tanks. Six months later the State Department approved the Saudi purchase. In the midst of the furor, Saudi Arabia's Ambassador Sheikh Abdullah Al-Khayyal pointed out that his country had already paid for the tanks ($135,000 each) and therefore held legal title. Overhanging the whole issue was the fact that the Dhahran agreement expires next June 18 and must be renegotiated...
...administer the jury system. These court officers are in a far better position than anyone else to decide how far the study may go before it interferes with the jury's function. In the Wichita cases, both the courts and counsel gave their permission and nothing in the furor since indicates that any harm came of their doing...
...Sargent later sold the portrait to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum.) In the furor, few seemed to care that Sargent had combined bare flesh and black velvet, starkness and stylishness, in an unforgettable image...