Word: furore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...furor also stirred up the recently quiescent peace movement. Leaders of a three-week springtime peace offensive centering around May Day hope to attract as many as 500,000 protesters to rallies in Washington. More than 400 student-body presidents and college editors last week sent a letter to the President assailing his Vietnamization policy, arguing that "changing the color of the corpses does not end the war." The editors of four of the nation's leading Catholic and Protestant journals prepared a joint editorial charging that "American military might is repeating the crucifixion of Christ" in Viet...
...national furor over the deteriorating environment has persuaded a rising number of grocery chains to join the fight against pollution themselves. Many stores now label the phosphate content of detergents that they sell, thus encouraging housewives to choose a brand less likely, after sewage treatment, to befoul waterways. Denver's King Soopers has even installed special mufflers on its delivery trucks to reduce their exhaust fumes. Still, few supermarkets have carried environmental concern to such lengths as Alexanders, a ten-store chain in Los Angeles with annual sales of $25 million. At the urging of his daughter Chris...
Fear and Coercion. The campus was outraged by Tongyai's apparent provocations, the town by the students' unruly behavior. The furor persuaded Governor Nelson Rockefeller to appoint a special grand jury. It heard testimony that Tongyai had been involved in a fire-bombing of Hobart's ROTC headquarters several weeks before the drug arrests. Skipping all that, the grand jury declared that Hobart officials "recklessly tolerated" student coercion of the law officers, who were thereby forced to "violate" their duties and give up their prisoners...
...World Health Organization; of pneumonia; in Victoria, B.C. Chisholm was one of the first to warn that world population growth could eventually outstrip food supplies unless there was global family planning. Best known for his attacks on what he regarded as society's sillier ideas, he stirred a furor by arguing that any child encouraged to believe in Santa Claus has his ability to think permanently injured. On superstition: "There is hardly a hotel in New York that has a floor numbered 13," said Chisholm. "The implications of this are enormous and disturbing, and nobody is doing anything about...
Yesterday, Jacobs could hardly conceal his delight at the furor his price cuts have caused. "We should be given a medal for giving the students a break," he said, "If someone wants to be a damn fool and rent a store with high overhead and all kinds of administrative costs, let him try. We're not here for philanthropy. We can make money at 3-2-1. We can make money at 21/2 cents a copy...