Word: furor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...predictable that the "Treasures of Tutankhamen," a traveling exhibition of precious objects discovered in a tomb in 1922, would cause a furor at the Field Museum of Natural History. In Washington, D.C., where the show began its run of six U.S. cities last December, the wait to get in averaged five hours. On its first day in Chicago, 2,000 people were in line when the doors opened. The first Tut fanciers had arrived...
...must be reorganized internally." Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Ralph Nader-affiliated Public Citizen's Health Research Group in Washington, says of the agency's initial decision to ban saccharin altogether: "The FDA wrote up its intention in one hour and 20 minutes. The furor could have been avoided if they thought of public reaction. They blew...
Egged on by Wald and his biologist wife, Ruth Hubbard, Cambridge's Mayor Alfred Velluci used the escalating DNA furor to badger his old foe, Harvard. He convened the city council in an effort to halt DNA research at the school. Said Velluci: "Something could crawl out of the laboratory, such as a Frankenstein." At the council's request, Harvard and M.I.T. agreed to a moratorium on P-3 research while an eight-member citizens' review board studied the issue. In February, the council overrode Velluci and passed an ordinance permitting recombinant DNA work to be resumed...
Many of the rights that people have literally died to obtain, such as equal access to education and job opportunities, and the teaching of our history and culture, are currently being withdrawn in the increasing furor around the so-called issue of "reverse discrimination...
...vote of the jury in the first perjury trial (8-4 for conviction) Alger Hiss honestly thought no one could take Chambers seriously. And more importantly, Hiss, we discover, had to face not only the immense pressure of the trials but also that of keeping his marriage together. The furor surrounding the case so rattled his wife Priscilla that she verged on hysterics during much of the trial period. Also, it was Alger Hiss's decision to keep Timmy Hobson Hiss, Tony's half-brother, from testifying. Timmy, Tony Hiss believes, could have destroyed Chambers' story of constantly visiting...