Word: furor
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Heresy! Ben-Gurion himself seemed surprised at the furor that broke when his speech was reported in the Israeli press. Heresy, cried the Orthodox. The Mizrahi Party accused him of attacking the basic beliefs of Judaism. The ultraOrthodox Agudat Israel Party introduced in the Knesset a motion of no confidence...
...corruption of modern titled Italians-from the Via Veneto's sophisticated sodomists to the industrialist's young daughter whose idea of let's-go-slumming is to make love in the chambers of a prostitute-Director Federico Fellini's film has already provoked a church furor in Italy. In Cannes last week, it also set the tone of the whole festival. In reversal of tradition, there was little obvious sex among the spectators and publicity-minded starlets this year, but there was so much on the screen that, before the competition was very far along, Cannes...
...conjunction is as, as, asT " Reynolds was delighted by the furor, like any cigarette maker might...
...London last week the bitterest and most divisive British political controversy of modern times flared into renewed life. Once again Englishmen argued in passionate detail the rights and wrongs of the Suez invasion of 1956. Cause of the furor: publication of Full Circle, the memoirs of former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden...
Fellow with a Fuse. No other federal agency chief wields as much power as Quesada (or causes as much furor). Every morning he barges out of his rented town house on California Street in northwest Washington carrying the last night's bundle of homework, hops into the rear seat of a chauffeured, telephone-equipped Government Lincoln and heads down the avenue. In his cherry-plywood-paneled office, he pulls off his jacket and goes to work standing up. Pacing the floor, he rattles his points over the phone (President Eisenhower is "Sir," everybody else "Fellow"), dictates a blistering letter...