Word: furor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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UMass emptied its bench in an effort to calm down its scoring furor. Led by star Jim Town (24 points in 19 minutes), the Minutemen shot an awesome 63 percent from the floor...
More than any other feature of Dean Fox's "Comprehensive Plan" for the Houses, its proposal to house all freshmen in the Yard, thereby eliminating freshmen from the Quad, created a furor. Most of the debate over Fox's plan centered on that recommendation, but the real reason for the support the plan received in the CHUL straw votes was not its no-freshmen-at-the-Quad provision, but its consequence of moving sophomores out of Canaday Hall...
...flap illustrates a hardy truism: steel-price increases arouse more political excitement than increases in the price of almost anything else. True, the decibel level of the uproar this time hardly matched the furor of 1952, when settlement of a bitter steel strike turned largely on how big a price increase mills would be granted under Korean War price controls, or 1962, when President Kennedy marshaled all the power of the White House to force a steel-price rollback. Still, steel men note caustically, aluminum makers in November announced price increases of as much as 11 % on some products without...
...furor in the Tweede Kamer was instantaneous and may not die down despite Menten's capture following a Swiss newsman's tip. Before fleeing, the art-loving SS man did some homework, if not quite enough. He calculated correctly that the Swiss statute of limitations on his offenses had expired. But the Swiss can expel those who commit "crimes against humanity." Doing so, however, requires a decision by the full Swiss cabinet, which will meet soon...
Weinstein said he was not alarmed by the Newsweek cover story, "Why Johnny Can't Write," that caused such a furor in educational circles last winter. He disagreed with Newsweek's thesis that students' writing troubles are worse now than ever before, and pointed to a series of articles from previous eras to prove his point: a 1961 article in Look also titled "Why Johnny Can't Write," a report entitled "General Education for a Free Society," which in 1945 expressed precisely the same sentiments as the Newsweek story; and a 1912 issue of the English Journal which also described...