Word: furor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gouzenko elaborated on his statement in an interview with a TIME correspondent, who arranged through an intermediary to meet Gouzenko and his blonde wife Anna. Gouzenko. a slim, blond 34-year-old, was obviously upset over the furor, which he blamed on Canadian animosity to Senator Joseph McCarthy. His English fractured badly as he protested: "As soon as you touch McCarthy, it is getting everybody make scream...
...Cambridge City Council passed on ordinance calling for a police force of 235 men. Fifteen years later Cambridge still has the same ordinance in its city statutes. The question of whether 235 men can efficiently operate the police force has been causing a furor in Cambridge municipal and political ranks. Chief of Police Patrick F. Ready says it can; almost everyone else agrees...
...masters as well as executives of his own mission. Back in the U.S., he studied at several seminaries, then joined the faculty of Scarritt, a training college for Methodist church workers in Nashville, Tenn. He was forced to leave because of his liberal views. Recalls Hutchinson: there was a "furor over an interracial party held in his home, at which whites were reported to have danced with Negroes...
Astin, chief of the Bureau of Standards, because, he said, the bureau had not been "sufficiently objective" when it tested AD-X2 and pronounced it worthless. The scientific furor which followed caused Weeks to reinstate Astin temporarily (TIME, April 27), and the Senate Small Business Committee to announce it would hold a full investigation...
...been dug up by the Providence Journal and Bulletin's Reporter John Strohmeyer, who thereby helped touch off the nationwide cleanup in the internal revenue bureau. But the U.S. court of appeals set aside the first conviction and ordered a retrial mainly on the ground that the press furor prevented a fair trial. Reporter Strohmeyer had no intention of letting the case die, kept hammering away. Last week, before the second trial got started, the pressure of the press and of the evidence in the case got to be too much for Grafter Delaney. He unexpectedly pleaded guilty...