Word: furore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Patton prayer for success in battle, recently published in the Swedish Life Guard Grenadiers' regimental journal, kicked up an ecclesiastical furor. It was accompanied by an editorial praising the general's "truehearted, frank religiousness in his intercourse with...
Newman himself is "surprised and amused" at all the furor, but he says, "I have no desire to change what I said before: that people in academic life have got to stand for freedom of though and freedom of investigation, or whatever we mean by academic institutions will fall to the ground...
Miss Gilbert's election came as a surprise after a tumultuous all night session that started, Friday midnight had placed three other names in nomination for the chairmanship. Much of the furor in the pre-down conclave was the outgrowth of a regional split that had been threatening for almost a year...
...furor that accompanied a scheduled preview of the movie, The Iron Curtain, at Manhattan's Roxy Theater was occasioned...
Some of the gentlemen on Capitol Hill are working themselves into a righteous furor this week about the Bogota rebellion. Why, demand the Congressmen, did not the Central Intelligence Agency, which is supposed to know what is going on everywhere in the world, know about the plots in Bogota? If the CIA did know what was going on, why wasn't the State Department informed in time? For the umpteenth time, the United States has been put into a foolish position for lack of proper intelligence work, and the Congressmen, as representatives of public opinion, are howling for investigations...