Word: furor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lines, separating the gays and the ugly from the rest, we take the chance of a "crackdown involving repression" of civil liberties and basic rights. By drawing lines we create an inferior class, and by applying "negative social pressure" to that class we begin to stir up a public furor that may lead to a consensus anti-gay, and anti-ugly opinion. Only such a consensus opinion will in fact prove effective in combating the pervasive influence of the gays, the ugly, and others...
Hussain's acquittal last week on two charges stemming from incidents in 1978 at Waltham Hospital stirred the expected furor. Some observers began questioning whether the doctor had been unfairly treated all along by muckraking journalists. Others raised new doubts when the 12 juniors were informed for the first time that Hussain was convicted last year along with two colleagues of gang-raping a nurse in a Rockport beach house in September 1980. Jury foreman Glenn C. Wright said after the verdict was announced that he would have changed his mind if Judge Andrew G. Meyer '45 had permitted...
Falklands Furor...
...stories, such as the Miami riots or the influx of Cuban and Haitian refugees, papers large and small send squadrons of reporters, publish special sections and-equally important-follow the story after the furor dies down. The major dailies send reporters to the national political conventions and on presidential campaigns, and at least two dispatched teams to cover the eruption of Mount St. Helens...
...past. "It is a tour de force ... to freeze the blood," said the Daily Mail. "A dramatic fraud," claimed the Financial Times. U.S. publication of the novel, which is due on April 30, the anniversary of Hitler's suicide, is certain to prolong and intensify the furor...