Word: furor
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Others contend that the Attorney General is the "chief law officer"; in fact, the official U.S. Government Manual currently describes him in exactly that way. In Britain, after a 1924 furor in Parliament over political interference with the Attorney General, the now well-established rule gives law enforcement authorities complete insulation and independence (except, of course, that they may not sue the Crown...
...further discredit Bonn's Social Democratic regime. Nollau pointed out several obvious errors in the purported CIA paper, and sought a court injunction to prevent Capital from printing the article. Citing "new information," the magazine promptly decided not to publish. By then, the episode had generated such a furor that Chancellor Helmut Schmidt worried aloud that West Germany might be succumbing to "spy hysteria...
...Hiss case (1948), the fund furor and Checkers speech (1952), Ike's heart attach (1955), the Latin American tour (1958), the Kitchen Debate with Kruschev (1959), the 1960 presidential campaign...
During the 1964 parliamentary campaign, Harold Wilson grandly observed that "the Labor Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing." Those noble words came back to haunt Britain's Prime Minister last week as a public furor continued over newspaper reports that two close associates-his longtime secretary, Marcia Williams, and her brother Anthony Field, Wilson's frequent golfing partner and onetime office manager-had profited in a land speculation deal (TIME, April 15). There was nothing illegal about it, and Wilson himself was not involved. But many Britons found it unseemly TOPIX that the charge...
...furor mounted, opposition leaders tried to sabotage Whitlam's stratagem. The Country Party premier of Queensland, Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, noticed that by some oversight Gair had not yet officially resigned from the Senate, and immediately published midnight election writs for his seat. This meant, according to the constitution, that the seat would be filled by the Queensland government-therefore by a non-Labor nominee-until the next general election in December 1975. Whitlam's efforts to pick up an extra Senate seat were thus stymied...