Word: furor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Irish terrorists. "The Irish, they're pigs," snapped Margaret, and then blurted, "Oh, you're Irish." That version of their talk, reported by Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Irv Kupcinet, created an international furor. Byrne diplomatically recalled the conversation as having had something to do with Irish jigs. London sources insisted that Margaret, if she used pigs at all, was referring only to terrorists...
...president. In the past year Volcker voted at Federal Reserve meetings for tighter money and was consistently outvoted by his colleagues. Then he got the top job and, with the economy in dire trouble, finally won unanimous support for the measures that caused last week's furor...
...many Americans the timing of the ceremonies-even though they were mandated by a treaty that the Senate had passed and President Carter had signed -could not have been worse. The furor at home over the Soviet combat troops in Cuba was an uncomfortable reminder that the Caribbean was no longer an "American lake." Those troops, as well as the leftist tinge of the Cuban-assisted revolution that overthrew Nicaraguan Strongman Anastasio Somoza, raised fears that the canal faced a remote threat...
...Furor over a Kirkland House seminar on the football multiflex offense prompted the committee action...
...Cambridge referendum if passed on the November ballot would request the state and federal governments not to license the construction or operation of any new nuclear power plants. But for now the anti-nuke furor hasn't reached...