Word: furor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rubber suits with protective masks and gloves, used long-handled shovels to put radioactive matter away in a special truck. Frightened townsfolk washed their hair as often as Mary Martin in South Pacific, and many trooped in to the local police station to have their radioactivity tested. All this furor was touched off by a little Putten girl's stuffy nose...
...Motors' Buick Motor Division. From morn till night, he was discussed, watched, wooed with every honeyed promise that resourceful admen could muster. Agencies besieged his Flint, Mich, office with telephone calls, then had their influential friends call, finally got their friends' friends to call. Reason for the furor: tucked away in Ragsdale's pocket was Buick's fat $24 million-a-year account, the industry's third largest automotive account (after Ford and Chevrolet) and he was preparing to toss it in the lap of some lucky agency...
...icecap of Soviet culture and drifted into open water. Last year Moscow allowed the serialization of Not by Bread Alone, Vladimir Dudintsev's harsh novel of genius frustrated by Red bureaucracy (TIME, Oct. 21), later condemned the book but could not prevent publication in the West. Now another furor is brewing over the appearance in Italy of a novel by distinguished Russian Poet-Translator Boris Pasternak. Reason why the Italian publication is "unauthorized"' by Moscow is evident from lines such as these: "Marxism is not sufficiently master of itself to be a science ... I know no current...
...Hidden Persuaders is sensationalistic. It is written to shock and, for the most part, succeeds, as is indicated by the furor raised since its publication. The book is described thus: "What makes us buy, believe, and even vote the way we do. An introduction to the New World of Symbol Manipulation and Motivational Research...
Associated with Kennedy primarily in the foreign policy field, Holborn reputedly was instrumental in preparing the famed "Algeria Speech," which caused so much furor in mid-summer. He worked full-time during the summer in the Senator's office, assisting also with conservation matters...