Word: furor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coldly Cruel. The worst furor of all broke when the New Delhi Statesman headlined the shocking news that India's popular and able army chief of staff, General K. S. Thimayya, had handed in his resignation. The reason: months of incessant bickering, especially about promotions in the armed forces, between Thimayya and the civilian Minister of Defense, crotchety, Mephistophelean Krishna Menon...
...What a furor over a mere bathing suit! One is bound to feel sorry for the poor tormented celibates who find such things as girls-in-bathing-suits lust-inciting and damaging to morals...
Much of the furor over soaring enrollment sounds as if U.S. colleges and universities might go broke by 1968 trying to handle some 6,000,000 students each year. Not so. says the Council for Financial Aid to Education. The monster invasion will indeed cost a staggering amount -$11.5 billion for new buildings and equipment alone in the "crisis" decade 1957-67. But the council found "grounds for hope that we are at last approaching a breakthrough." Main evidence: construction has consistently matched rising enrollment. Since 1955, colleges and universities have apparently been able to spend some 20% more...
...Fidel, Himself." The U.S. link to the Cuba furor was the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, chaired by Mississippi's Senator James Eastland. Eastland's witness was Major Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, former head of Castro's air force, who says he was fired for fighting Communist influence in the armed forces (TIME, July 13). Cuba's No. 1 Communist, Díaz Lanz charged, "is Fidel himself." He added that on a trip to Venezuela, he saw Castro go into a hotel bathroom for a private, two-hour talk with Venezuelan Communist Boss Gustavo Machado. Castro...
...American fair in Moscow, said the President, "is a very huge affair, and this furor about the art is ... really a relatively minor sector . . . The art is down in two fairly small rooms and the exhibition is all over two floors." As for the selection of paintings, he admitted a preference for Andrew Wyeth's study of an elderly lady, but refused to quarrel with the jury.* "I have nothing to say about them because I am not an artist . . . I am not now going to be any censor...