Word: furor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Damned Unpleasant." The furor was created not by "secret gases" but by three common riot-control gases that the U.S. has been supplying to South Vietnamese forces since 1962: CN (chloroacetophenone), a fragrant-smelling tear gas that also irritates the skin, loses effectiveness in about three minutes; CS (o-chlorobenzalmalononi-trile), a pungent agent developed by the British, of all people, that stings the eyes, causes chest pains, choking and vomiting for up to 15 minutes; and DM (Adamsite), a peppery-smelling gas that causes diarrhea, chest and head pains, and lasts up to two hours...
College officials last week assured the outside world that they were "concerned" about the drug situation in Harvard Square. You could sense it. They really were concerned--concerned that the minor furor over drugs would grow and become the 1965 version of last year's Sex "Scandal...
Once again, bitter controversy has flared up around the Harvard Student Agencies. The present furor over the European Charter Flights Agency is aggravated by memories of former feuds, and a highly complicated situation has been reduced to simplistic accusations on the one hand and a puzzling silence on the other...
...simple expedient of picking top poets and giving them a useful chunk of cash, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry has established itself in the relatively short span of 16 years as probably the most highly regarded of U.S. literary awards. Since 1948, when a distinguished jury stirred a furor by awarding the initial prize to Ezra Pound,* the list of Bollingen winners has amounted to a virtual roll call of U.S. poetic merit. Among them: Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke. After the 1962 award to Robert Frost, the frequency...
...million it routinely cashes in each year. De Gaulle thereby served notice that he intended not only to cause mischief for the American economic colossus, but to test the money system in its global entirety. The move was important not so much for its size as for the furor it caused and the specter it roused of what would happen if other dollar holders decided to imitate France...