Word: furor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What to Do? While Democrats sat back and chuckled at the furor, Dwight Eisenhower aides searched for a solution. There was no indication that the Ikemen had foreseen the trouble. Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall thought it might be all right if Wilson would agree to disqualify himself on all defense-G.M. dealings. Ohio's Senator Robert Taft suggested that Congress might quickly change the law to fit Wilson's case, but he added somewhat sharply that offering a solution is "their problem," i.e., the problem of Dwight Eisenhower and his close advisers. The problem extends below...
...this mechanism, the execution part of the problem, which has raised the most constant furor. The complaints would not recur with such persistance if they were groundless. And, in fact, the courses in elementary French, German, and Spanish are little more than dull for student and instructor alike, a malaise traced to dogged adherence to the rules of grammar. Memorizing the order of verbs, pronouns and whatnot, lists of idioms, and verb forms may be necessary, but there is no need for the zealous stress currently laid on them. This process only dulls what ardor there is for learning, through...
Texas. In all the furor about Texas, hardly anyone paid any attention to the fact that Martin Dies was quietly (which is unusual for Dies) being returned to the House as Congressman at large. A Congressman from 1931 to 1945, Dies was first chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee...
...statues in London's Tate Gallery, none is more famed than Rodin's The Kiss. Rodin had three carvings made of his white-marble couple, and the one at the Tate is the last and best. There was a public furor in 1913 when its owner, a private collector named Edward Warren, lent it for exhibition in a Sussex town hall: local puritans draped a sheet over the nude figures. But since 1939, The Kiss has stood in prominent and honored display in the Tate's hall of sculpture. Britons are used to it now-and proud...
...subcommittee learned that Tom C. Clark, then the Attorney General and now a Supreme Court Justice, limited the first investigation to questioning of only six witnesses, and then dropped the case entirely. He picked it up again only after much public furor...