Word: furore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although during the weeks preceding the executions massive protests took place in cities throughout the world (the first major anti-American demonstrations of the post-war period), the furor over the case died very quickly. The Rosenberg children, Michael and Robert, were adopted by a family whose name they took. Greenglass went to prison, served part of his time, and is presently living under an assumed name. Harry Gold died ten years ago, shortly after his release from prison...
Some politicians recently raised a furor because Exxon's refinery in Bay way, N.J., fueled a Polish fishing trawler while American fishermen were worrying about supplies. Nonplused Exxon men were late in explaining that they simply had been fulfilling a legal obligation under a long-term contract to sell products to a Polish state company...
...result of the court's decision last November to hear a test case challenging admissions offices' rights to allow race to be a factor in admission decisions. The case, DeFunis v. Odegaard (1973), will be heard by the court beginning on February 26, and judging from the furor which it has created in educational circles, educators and administrators see the possible effects of this case to be at least as significant as the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) court decision...
...also inspired a cartoon portraying Prime Minister Edward Heath in a bath telling his butler: "Save gas or not, Perkins, I will not share a bath with Mick McGahey" (Communist official of the mineworkers union). The gas board itself was somewhat startled and not a little amused by the furor raised by the ad. "We never thought of the idea as kinky," said a board spokesman. Not everyone was so lighthearted. Conservative M.P. John Stokes called the ad "deplorably vulgar." Grumped another Conservative, Joseph Kinsey: "It is debasing the standards of the gas board to suggest we should share...
Shockley sat calmly behind a table during the press conference looking unperturbed. He is 63 years old, short, gray-haired and innocent looking. He never gets excited or raises his voice. He looks gentle and unimportant. People wonder what he ever did to raise any furor. And then he says things--very calmly always--like "I'd like to talk about the way we can trace the intelligence of Negroes to their percentage of Caucasian blood...