Word: furor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, the furor over auto and steel prices was way out of proportion to their small effect on the cost of living. Retail food prices, which are far more important to consumers, had risen almost as much (4.3%) since Korea. But in the face of the politically potent farm bloc, no one in Washington was talking about removing farm price supports, which had helped food prices to rise...
...have been much amused by the continued furor caused by this newspaper in regard to the dearth of social, bisexual entertainment facilities available to the Harvard undergraduate. Much energy, crimition, and literary license has been indulged in to describe the lush grass somewhere and to compare it to the pallid green homeland of the Cantabridgian...
...group, a furor was raised when orders to ship overseas without delay en route were issued. Many went absent without leave, but most grudgingly accepted their fate...
...furor caused by Harry Truman's letter denouncing the Marine Corps "propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's" (TIME, Sept. 18) reminded a Colorado Democratic state senator that he had gotten a provocative response last year to a letter he had written to the President. State Senator Neal Bishop, knowing full well Harry Truman's dislike of John L. Lewis, had facetiously suggested putting up Mr. Lewis for Ambassador to Russia. The President's reply: "I've already appointed a good man to that post, and for your information I wouldn...
...thing. Justice's Mclnerney appeared to be mainly interested in defending the extraordinary performance of the Justice Department. On the Republican side, Congressmen appeared to be more anxious to exploit half truths than to get at whole truths. Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, largely responsible for the latest furor, had dug the case out again in his effort to discredit the State Department, and that seemed to keep many a solid Republican from joining in the demand for a full investigation...