Word: furor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower's loyalty to his subordinates is well-known. However, the furor aroused this summer by the liaison between Sherman Adams and Bernard Goldfine obscured another scandal of the Eisenhower Administration--the Flanagan case...
...against the money-hungry doctor rather than the story-hungry press. Milan's daily Il Giorno (circ. 150,000), coming to the astonished realization that the Pope's chief physician was not a tried clinician, asked what was, perhaps, the most startling question raised by the whole furor: "How could Pius XII entrust his health for so many years to a quack...
...this furor worried Sheraton Corp. of America, second biggest U.S. hotel chain. It announced that it would offer to its 850,000 cardholders, who got their cards for nothing, a new comprehensive card for $5. Hilton Hotels Corp., biggest U.S. chain, broke into a sweat; fearing the Sheraton competition, Hilton announced that it would expand the Hilton card, which is used in its 33 hotels in the U.S. and abroad, to cover outside restaurants and shops...
...Brazilian medical researchers, Drs. Jorge Vaitsman and Jefferson Andrade dos Santos, kept the steak furor sizzling by reporting that they had fed hormone-treated meat to animals with startling results: spayed females went into heat again, and normal males became infertile or impotent. The researchers forgot to mention how much free hormone was left in the feed. But there was another bogy: in an alternate method, hormone pellets are implanted in the steer's ear or neck for gradual absorption. From the neck, unabsorbed pellets might slip into an edible cut and thence into an unsuspecting customer...
...though Menotti's notions about love were being used to teach his Ruritanians basic English. Incidents of little significance were treated as moments of high drama. When the cook announced that her culinary specialty 'has not risen to the occasion,' the music shifted into crescendo furor. There was plenty of theatricality, but much less real theater. By the time Menotti came to the end of his third act, he was faced with the eternal creative problem-how to sign and sing off. Instead of boldness, he chose a nicely cathartic murder in which nobody suffered real pain...