Word: furore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Furor over Reincarnation...
...quite dismayed that there should be a furor over David Weltha's teaching of reincarnation at Iowa State University in Ames [March 27]. I was always under the impression that we send our children to college to learn about existing theories and knowledge in the universe. We surely expose them to the concepts of Communism, genocide and terrorism, as well as other world dynamics that have a significant effect on the human condition...
...letters; most of the correspondents were angry at Bryant. As it happened, the subject that drew the most comment was not a story at all. When TIME'S new graphic design appeared in August, most of the 1,900 comments were sharply negative. But within a month the furor had died down, and readers were writing in to say that they were warming to the changed format as to a new friend...
...furor over what a handful of indecisive Senators will or will not accept, it is too easily forgotten that the Panamanians are also a party to the treaty. They too have compromised on the delicate issue of foreign intervention, and they have been pushed even further by the reservations. The opposition will doubtless goad them still more by urging reservations or amendments on the second treaty when it comes up for a vote. If the Panamanians should decide to abandon the treaty, the U.S. will be left with its great ditch, but it will be surrounded by a hostile population...
...furor over the CIA's real and putative misdeeds has obscured its solid accomplishments over many years. Except for rare periods of war, the U.S. did not even have an overall intelligence service until the Office of Strategic Services was created in 1942; it provided Americans with a hazardous and exhilarating cram course in espionage. OSS members formed the nucleus of the CIA, which was started in 1947 in response to Soviet expansionism. The agency attracted talented recruits from campuses in the 1950s, and its activities spread adventurously, and occasionally recklessly...