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Word: furor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this furor about prayers in school [Oct. 4] is ridiculous! A young person can pray and pray and still become a villain. If the frenzy were about teaching ethics, there would be some sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 25, 1982 | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...board had also been coming under increasing fire for secrecy, and the need to improve their image in the midst of the "truth-in-testing" furor eventually helped convince the trustees to change policy...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Hoping Against Hope | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

...serious problem erupted with the Israelis. Vance had just shown them a copy of our draft letter that would go to Sadat, restating the U.S. position on Jerusalem, which had been spelled out officially in U.N. debates over the years. There was an absolute furor, and Begin announced that Israel would not sign any document if we wrote any letter to Egypt about Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Faith | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...financier also served as "venerable master" of a bizarre Masonic lodge known as Propaganda Due, or P2. Its membership of nearly 1,000 included powerful Italian politicians, military men and police. The fact that Gelli was apparently using the lodge to achieve political power in Italy unleashed such a furor that high military and security officials whose names were found on the rolls were forced to resign; so was Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani, though he was not a P2 member. Gelli's name was also linked to the collapse of Milan's Banco Ambrosiano, whose president, Roberto Calvi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Bank Error | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...House version, which passed in late July, provoked a furor in the academic community because it allowed the Department of Education to ask colleges and universities to help out with enforcement. (The Senate amendment, which was approved two-and-a-half months before, left the chore entirely up to the government.) Administrators complained of unwieldy and impossible paperloads which they said would result...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: The Draft and Student Aid | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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