Word: furore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their own leaders, kill Hitler and other conspicuous Nazis. If they do not thus take matters into their own hands, he believes the solution of the German problem may be indefinitely prolonged. For he fears that war-guilt trials by the United Nations would only heighten the frustrated furor Teutonicus, while failure to punish the Nazi leaders would play spiritual havoc with the Allied peoples in their own long-frustrated desire to get at Hitler...
...left Moscow, Father Orle-manski convinced U.S. newsmen that he possessed evidence of willingness among top Soviet officials to carry out the constitutional promise of full religious freedom. (For news of religion in Russia, see p. 42.) His evidence would have to be something special to quell the furor which his Russian visit had created...
...word of my statement was intended as an attack on Great Britain. . . . I must say, in all candor, that our British allies have become unduly sensitive if an American citizen and Senator cannot discuss the operations and policies of his own government without raising a storm of furor and resentment. . . . Any lasting world peace must have as its keystone a complete understanding between the United States and the British Empire. But this cooperation and understanding cannot be had except upon a basis of equality and frank and fair dealings. . . . Frank discussion will always dissipate the clouds of suspicion...
Meanwhile a Swedish songstress named Lala Anderson (whose recording had caused the Belgrade furor) had made Lili Marleen the rage of Berlin cabarets. Actress Emmy Sonnemann (Frau Hermann Göring) sang it for Nazi bigwigs at a concert in Berlin's Kroll Opera House...
...round mastery of the piano as any man can show. And it brings him a steady income of over $100,000 a year. He is also one of the recording industry's biggest sellers, whose discs annually gross over $500,000. His Tchaikovsky Concerto (Victor) started a national furor a year ago when Bandleader Freddie Martin heard it and made a popular arrangement that was worn ragged in juke boxes from coast to coast. Rubinstein's proper version, riding the crest with Martin's adaptation, shortly rolled up a sale of an estimated 200,000 albums...