Word: furor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Korean CIA persuaded the suspects to return home by threats against their relatives or offers of lighter sentences, but the news that they had been taken back to Korea touched off a furor in Western Europe, where most of them lived. France and West Germany, neither of which has extradition treaties with South Korea, lodged official protests with Seoul...
...though not through any fault of Detroit: the friend fell asleep at the wheel). Later, he was horrified during his undergraduate years at Princeton when songbirds on the campus began dying as a result of DDT spray-long before Rachel Carson's Silent Spring raised an anti-pesticide furor...
Defiant Press. The junta, led by Colonel George Papadopoulos, was so preoccupied with Cyprus that it tried at first to ignore the criticism from Karamanlis. But when the colonels became aware of the furor that his words had caused in Greece, they sent a statement to the Greek press that characterized his actions as ill-timed, irresponsible, and "nationally unacceptable," and compared them with those of the exiled boss of the Greek Communist Party. Until now, that part of the Greek press still operating has obediently followed the junta's orders, but the attack on Karamanlis was simply...
...historic moment, the "thrusting open of French doors to the whole world of light outside." But the fashion of the 1860s was for brownish landscapes of the Barbizon school; Monet was able to sell his work for only $41. Six years later, his Sunrise: An Impression created a furor in Paris and gave its name to a new school of art, impressionism...
...arrival set off a small furor. U.S. Customs, tipped off that an obscene doll was being imported, sent an inspector to investigate. He took one look and brushed the complaint aside. But more determined opposition was building up elsewhere. In Norwood, Ohio, Mrs. Stephen Wetzel, a mother of three, read about the doll in the newspapers, formed a committee that has since mailed off over a thousand letters of protest to Government officials, churches, clubs and department stores, branding the $19.95 doll an "obscene toy." Southern California is currently being blanketed by other protesters who believe that Little Brother will...