Word: furor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sachar himself minimized the significance of "the furor that has excited the Brandeis campus." "Inevitably, when an issue involving academic freedom or freedom of speech arises on campus," he explained, "faculty and students become tremendously exercised. And they should...
...hiked by $47 million annually within the next three years by increasing federal payments and raising district taxes. Predictably, McMillan's committee whittled away most of the proposed hike. Later, in a huff over repeated newspaper and TV attacks on the cuts, McMillan announced that he figured the furor had ruined the chances for any raise at all in payments this year...
...turned in rage and frustration to terror-which also did not work. Robespierre was overwhelmed by the masses. "Where the breakdown of traditional authority set the poor of the earth on the march," writes Arendt, "where they left the obscurity of their misfortunes and streamed upon the marketplace, their furor seemed as irresistible as the motion of the stars, a tor rent rushing forward with elemental force and engulfing a whole world." When the torrent receded, the rocky economic facts remained...
...nationwide furor following Miss Blanding's remarks, the presidents of several other women's colleges discussed the problems of pre-marital sex. Although no other administrators spoke officially about the conduct of their own undergraduates, all were generally in favor of saving sex for marriage...
...Board, which employs more than 580,000 people. Shuttling from mine to mine, he patiently explained to the miners the need to close unprofitable mines and automate the remaining ones. His down-to-earth, ex-union leader's approach won the miners' support. With a minimum of furor, Robens has closed 50 marginal mines in northern England and Scotland, moved many of the displaced workers to expanding mines in the Midlands. A 4% raise in miners' wages last year was more than offset by an 8% increase in productivity; today the output per man in British mines...