Word: furore
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...frenetic political activities, Redgrave has linked herself inextricably to her causes. Her behavior at the Academy Awards, her two PLO movies, her portrayed of a concentration camp victim on a TV special and the subsequent furor over insensitive casting, all contribute to the difficulty of distinguishing between Redgrave the across and Redgrave the politics. It is possible that by exploiting her position as a public figure and an actress, she may have undermined the legitimacy of her current complaint...
...this furor about prayers in school [Oct. 4] is ridiculous! A young person can pray and pray and still become a villain. If the frenzy were about teaching ethics, there would be some sense...
...board had also been coming under increasing fire for secrecy, and the need to improve their image in the midst of the "truth-in-testing" furor eventually helped convince the trustees to change policy...
...serious problem erupted with the Israelis. Vance had just shown them a copy of our draft letter that would go to Sadat, restating the U.S. position on Jerusalem, which had been spelled out officially in U.N. debates over the years. There was an absolute furor, and Begin announced that Israel would not sign any document if we wrote any letter to Egypt about Jerusalem...
...financier also served as "venerable master" of a bizarre Masonic lodge known as Propaganda Due, or P2. Its membership of nearly 1,000 included powerful Italian politicians, military men and police. The fact that Gelli was apparently using the lodge to achieve political power in Italy unleashed such a furor that high military and security officials whose names were found on the rolls were forced to resign; so was Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani, though he was not a P2 member. Gelli's name was also linked to the collapse of Milan's Banco Ambrosiano, whose president, Roberto Calvi...