Word: furor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wake of the campus furor the letter caused, Counter permitted Hillel, the campus organization for Jewish students, to appoint a permanent member to the Foundation's Student Advisory Committee--a position Hillel members had long desired, but not until then been granted...
...nation's two campaigns by openly gay candidates for statewide office has put homosexuality on the ballot. Guy Molinari, borough president of Staten Island -- a suburban, Republican stronghold in otherwise overwhelmingly Democratic New York City -- caused a statewide furor when he said yesterday on television that he didn't think Empire State voters would give the nod to Karen Burstein for attorney general because she was a lesbian. Today, in an interview with TIME Daily, he went further, suggesting that Burstein's lesbianism will have an effect on how she conducts herself as attorney general. Burstein, he claimed, might...
...initial furor died down, a calmer Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth S. Nathans announced at about 11 p.m. that all students could sleep in their waterlogged rooms.CrimsonBowell ChenWaterlogged items sit on the floor in one Hollis room...
This decision by the Fly, while disappointing, hasn't caused a widespread furor in the Harvard community for a simple reason: Most people have long since written off the Fly and its brethren final clubs, considering them nothing more than a stomping ground for up-and-coming elitists...
Crimson reporters who quoted from messages posted to Internet newsgroups caused a furor, and angry epistles were written in reply to the general Harvard newsgroup as well as the one meant for the Computer Science 161 course...