Word: furore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican Everett Dirksen, these were outlandish ideas. "I should not like to be around to enjoy the furor," said Dirksen, "if the Vice President undertook, for venal purposes or motivations of his own, to pursue that kind of course . . . The people of this country will have something to say about that. They would not exactly run him out on a rail, but his whole political future, such as it might be, would come to an end at that point." In the end, the amendment's critics failed to get any changes in the language agreed to by the House...
Following a brief furor over the discriminatory constitution of the Association of African and Afro-American, Students, the University was shocked by the assassination of its alumnus and the nation's President. The Harvard-Yale football game, scheduled for the next day, was postponed, and the University cancelled classes in mourning for the first time in its history...
...College scene in the annual class marshal elections. Faye Levine tried to become the first girl class marshal of a Harvard graduating class. The 329 years of ivied traditions trembled, but they did not fall. The HCUA, in its own death throes, rushed to preserve Propriety. Amidst a pleasant furor, Miss Levine's candidacy was ruled invalid. But the candidate on the basis of some little-publicized election rules further sullied the election. The proceedings amply reflected the disdain, in which most of the class held the proceedings...
Silent Fuming. Martin said much more - notably, that there are major differences as well as similarities be tween the economies of 1929 and 1965 - but the rest was all but ignored in the furor that followed. The stock mar ket, uncertain and sliding for several weeks, plunged sharply: the Dow Jones industrial average fell 19 points in the three days after Martin's speech, dipped briefly below the psychologically im portant 900 mark, then closed the week at 900.87. Congressional leaders called for an investigation of the state of free-world economies. Lyndon Johnson at first fumed silently...
...question of fair trial rather than guilt or innocence, Judge Weinman concluded last July that "inflammatory" reporting by Cleveland newspapers so prejudiced Sheppard's jurors that it made his trial "a mockery of justice." Weinman's opinion, which freed Sheppard, became a milestone in the unfolding U.S. furor over the evils of "trial by newspaper...