Word: furor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...describes a Junior Chamber of Commerce convention, a group of stolid conventional young burghers who are genuinely puzzled by the furor around them. Why don't students wat a Jaycee group on campus? Why can't the girl who takes a full page ad in Daily Variety to advertise her availability as a star realize her dream? Why do bikers gangbang women, trash stores? Didion answers...
...receives nearly two million dollars in aid from the Soviet Union, which supplies the country with oil at half the world market price. Although Cuban society has been transformed internally, Cuba is still dependent on a foreign power. In fact, what has not often been mentioned in the recent furor over the presence of Soviet troops is that Cuba actually has forces of both superpowers on its territory: the U.S. continues to operate a naval base at Guantanamo. The native strength of the Cuban people and their achievements in only two decades seem to offer hope that this small island...
Dealing with community pressure--responding to angry neighbors--has become a large part of the job of the community relations office in the last few years. Controversy has marked Brewer's year on the job, from the furor over a wall near the Church Street Garage, to the leasing of a building across the "Red Line" on Ware St., to the messy eviction of tenants from 7 Sumner...
Young's unauthorized meeting last month with the PLO's U.N. representative created a furor in the United States and Israel which culminated in his resignation from his U.N. post...
...said she was "bewildered" when she returned from sabbatical to confront the furor over the department. "I was not involved in the many decisions that took place during my absence and I did not have a clear understanding of the proper structures for governing the department. If anyone had sat me down and explained what was going on, I might have a better attitude," she added...