Word: furor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...furor began when Enoch Powell, 55, a right-wing Tory M.P. from the industrial Midlands, launched an attack on an antidiscrimination bill introduced by the Labor government to protect Britain's 1,000,000 coloreds-a term that covers shades from light tan to dark black and encompasses Indians and Pakistanis as well as African and West Indian Negroes. Powell, a onetime teacher of Greek and a classics scholar, has a record for independence and strong-mindedness. Having decided in 1963 to try for the Tories' top job, he refused to serve in Alec Douglas-Home...
Upset by the furor, Chicago's Daley later tried to ameliorate the psychological impact of his kill-and-maim statement. "There wasn't any shoot-to-kill order," he said lamely. "That was a fabrication." In fact, Daley's tough new order still stood. Whether the "deadly force" he intends to apply in future rioting will serve as a goad or a preventive may well be tested in the summer ahead...
Amidst this furor from the Right, there is one moderate group that has consistently opposed fluoridation: the Christian Science Church. The Church houses no pseudo-experts. Opposition is based entirely on the legal aspects of "mass medication...
...furor was set off by Amnesty International, a London-based organization, in a detailed report compiled by investigators who recently spent four weeks in Greece. The investigators charged that some of the junta's prisoners have been subjected to systematic tortures, including beatings on the soles of the feet and electric shocks to the genitals. The British government immediately buttressed the report by declaring its belief that prisoners have indeed been inhumanely treated...
...furor surrounding Robert F. Kennedy the last few days, political analysts at all levels have somehow failed to appreciate the full significance of Tuesday's election returns. Kennedy himself, in reading New Hampshire as merely a sign of untapped anti-war strength, sees half a picture, and a deceptive one. The 42 per cent tally garnered this week by Eugene J. McCarthy reflects as much on McCarthy's attractiveness as a candidate as on the potency of his major issue. Voters with ambivalent feelings about the war, but with feelings of pronounced distrust for President Johnson and his Administration, were...