Word: furor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...furor is obviously a case of Pike's pique...
...public and embarrass them for a change?" demanded an irate former Moscow diplomat last week. He was referring to Washington's curious reticence about the great Moscow microwave furor. Last month the U.S. confirmed that for some 15 years the Soviet Union has been beaming microwaves at the hulking nine-story U.S. embassy on Moscow's Tchaikovsky Street (TIME, Feb. 23). The purpose: to jam the sophisticated electronic monitoring devices inside and on the roof of the building. (An earlier theory, now taken less seriously, was that the microwaves were designed to activate or charge up Soviet bugs...
Last fall, after hearing Vice President Nelson Rockefeller discuss the subject with concern, Senator Barry Goldwater told newsmen that Soviet agents had infiltrated the offices of seven Senators. In the ensuing furor, 52 Congressmen endorsed a letter asking Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence Activities, to look into the charges. Church, in turn, asked the FBI to investigate...
...Emily Hewitt is currently a first-year student at Harvard Law School. Despite the furor caused by the ordinations, Hewitt remains an extremely private person, refusing interviews or publicity. Her classmates at the Law School are unaware of her priestly status. Those who discover it are surprised, and often mention her dedication to the law. Heyward, who knows Hewitt well, having lived for many years in the same diocese as the law student, calls her friend "extraordinarily holy and fabulously committed." Walter J. Telfer, chairman of the Church and Ministry Department at Andover-Newton Theological Seminary, where Hewitt taught until...
...Advancement of Colored People, compared Amin-who brutally expelled at least 50,000 Asians in 1972 for racial as well as political reasons and has had killed anywhere from 25,000 to 250,000 Ugandans who opposed his dictatorial regime-to Adolf Hitler. Meanwhile, Moynihan shrugged off the furor at the U.N., insisting that Amin had started it when "he slandered and blasphemed the American people by saying that we let the country be run by Zionists." Then a White House spokesman declared that President Ford felt that Moynihan "said what needed to be said...