Word: furore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 righteously rebuked it as "that novel which made a great furor among the educated incompetents and the pessimists generally . . . It had a superficial and rotten cleverness, but it was essentially false, essentially mean and base, and it is amusing to read it now and see how completely events have given...
Dean Acheson was in England to receive an Oxford degree and attend a Big Three Foreign Ministers' conference. Hearing the furor, he lunched with Anthony Eden, quickly agreed to a proposal by Lord Alexander (made before the fuss began) that Britain should have a deputy on the high command in Korea. Then he stepped before a special meeting of some 300 M.P.s in the grand committee room of ancient Westminster Hall. The bombing, he said, was a military undertaking, not a political move, and the U.S. was not obliged to notify Britain in advance. He expressed regret, however, that...
...furor about Texas, the chief Taft argument has been that the Eisenhower supporters brought Democrats into Republican caucuses to elect delegates for Ike. This week the Democrat shoe was suddenly jammed on the other foot...
After all last week's furor about the contests, Bob Taft came forward with a bit of his philosophy about such cases. Said he: "I may say that as far as ruthless treatment in conventions is concerned, where the Eisenhower people had the power, they have used [it]. I see no reason why, if the Taft people are in control, they should not do the same...
Passed over as Army chief of staff in favor of a junior corps commander, Joe Collins. Considered retiring, entering politics. Last year Harry Truman picked him-an Episcopalian-as the nation's first Ambassador to the Vatican, but in the resulting furor Clark asked to have his name withdrawn...