Word: furore
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...trying to correct the situation, Pope Paul VI chose conservative Adrianus Simonis as bishop of Rotterdam, stirring up a furor. Even so, two years later Paul added the more hard-line Gijsen to the hierarchy. With encouragement from the Vatican, the abrasive Gijsen set about creating a church within a church. He boycotted the Dutch church's official catechetical institute and its counseling center for troubled priests and nuns. When the Dutch Council of Churches took what he considered too tolerant a line on abortion and homosexuality, he unilaterally pulled out of it, while The Netherland...
...Public furor over the operation of massage parlors in Cambridge has evaporated since police closed one such establishment in East Cambridge in October...
...Mountbatten murder: The I.R.A. gave clear reasons for the execution. I think it is unfortunate that anyone has to be killed, but the furor created by Mountbatten's death showed up the hypocritical attitude of the media establishment. As a member of the House of Lords, Mountbatten was an emotional figure in both British and Irish politics. What the I.R.A. did to him is what Mountbatten had been doing all his life to other people; and with his war record I don't think he could have objected to dying in what was clearly a war situation...
...destroyed an entity. Edwards was sure the demonstration would convince Kübler-Ross that Barham was a fraud. No such luck. "This man has more gifts than you have ever seen," says Kübler-Ross. "He is probably the greatest healer that this country has." The current furor does not appear to disturb her. Says she: "Many attempts have been made to discredit us. To respond to them would be like casting pearls to swine...
...industry profits leaped 70 per cent over the previous year, provoking a tremendous public outcry and numerous congressional investigations. Yet Congress took no serious action to prevent this from happening again once the furor faded. This year the percentage rises in profit have been up to three times as high. If the government cannot establish an "all-American" oil company now, it will lose the opportunity forever--the chance to join the rest of the Western, capitalist, industrialized world in fielding a state-owned competitor...