Word: furore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next Boat? Last weekend, after gulping down his supply of barbiturates, Soblen was pronounced in grave condition by British physicians. The British Home Office was in a furor trying to figure out just how Soblen had managed to accumulate his massive dose-and to consume it while presumably under heavy guard. In any event, when and if Soblen does get back to the U.S., authorities had better be sure he does not just walk off one day and board the next slow boat to Red China...
Considering the furor over Spence's original design, there has been a remarkable chorus of praise for the final result...
...lupine character named Simple J. Malarkey, who looked so much like the late U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (whom Kelly called "one of the great alltime comedians") that the Orlando, Fla., Sentinel threw out Kelly's strip, and several other papers filed complaints. Again in 1958, when the furor over public school integration reached one of its peaks, Kelly set Pogo the possum to talking about "speakeasy" schoolrooms, "consegregated," "de-consegregated" and "non-un-de-consegregated" schools. One Southern paper, by judicious editing, purified the sequence for its readers, and another dropped it entirely...
...President's committee that is now studying exams should recommend that students be allowed to bring any materials they wish into the examination room, the initial furor would be enormous. But just this kind of rule is needed to encourage professors to think out their courses more carefully and to give students a sensible degree of responsibility for their own education...
...Dick. President Eisenhower assigned to Nixon more responsibility than had been given any previous Vice President. Yet Ike's real feelings about Nixon were often baffling-most of all to Nixon. During the fund crisis, Eisenhower telephoned Nixon only once, three days after the furor broke in the press. "I have come to the conclusion," said Candidate Eisenhower to his running mate, "that you are the one who has to decide what to do ... If the impression got around that you got off the ticket because I forced you to get off. it is going to be very...