Word: furore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national debate over a massive investment in an anti-ballistic missile, better known as the ABM. Shouting "No bombs in the backyard!" mothers, scholars and other citizens marched in protest against Lyndon Johnson's plan to install nuclear-tipped Sentinel ABMs at twelve sites around the country. The furor went on even after Richard Nixon changed the ABM'S name to Safeguard and scaled down the project to a "thin" shield protecting only a few cities from attack by iCBMs. The issue began to fade after the U.S. and the Soviet Union agreed, in the 1972 accord...
...colleagues took note of that at all, it would if anything have the opposite effect of what the paper intended. The Department met to consider the manuscript on which its decision about tenure depended, and it considered that matter only. Dr. Kearns kept us informed, independently of the press furor, of the state of her manuscript and her plans for publication and asked us for our judgment as to its quality in its various versions. We responded. Decisions about tenure are made on grounds of scholarly achievements and promise, and this decision followed that principle. As to the details...
Futile Indignation. It was the biggest and broadest outpouring of indignation that had swept through Western Europe's democracies in many years. In the end, it was futile. The cause of the furor was the determination of General Francisco Franco's regime to carry out the death sentence that had been ordered in the cases of five terrorists, each of whom had been convicted of killing a policeman. Two of the condemned men, Angel Otaegui Echevarria, 33, and Juan Paredes Manot, 21, were members of a Basque separatist organization; the other three, Ramón Garcia Sanz...
Second, Trypanis caused a furor last spring by giving a roving theater group almost a third of a million dollars because he happened to choose a company whose choreographer is the daughter of President Tsatsos. His latest gift can be linked with the president's family also, since Mrs. Ioanna Tsatsos is the sister of the late George Seferis...
...Chile had undermined Pinochet's efforts to obtain desperately needed aid. In the past few weeks, however, a group of American banks that includes First National City, Bank of America, Morgan Guaranty and Chemical Bank, had put together a $70 million renewable credit for Chile. But with the furor over the apparently forged death lists growing stronger every day, what Pinochet hoped might be the beginning of a stream of foreign loans could quickly...