Word: furore
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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...
...epicenter of protest is at the campus of Seoul National University, whose rebellious students helped topple the regime of former Strongman Syngman Rhee in 1960. What galvanized the students this time was the diplomatic furor created by the kidnaping, purportedly by CIA agents, of exiled former Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung from a hotel in Tokyo. At a rally last month, 400 students demanded an end to the terrorist rule of the CIA, the "whole truth" about the Kim abduction and restoration of press freedom...
...furor that followed the veto, CPB's chairman, John W. Macy, resigned in protest. To replace Macy, and to place the CPB in friendly hands, Nixon appointed Henry W. Loomis. Loomis, a former deputy director of the United States Information Agency, shared Nixon's antipathy toward the "fourth network concept" that was favored at PBS. Loomis has been an activist chairman who has worked vigorously to dismantle PBS's public affairs programming...
...there were no such thing as an I.Q. test. For, all it really says is that people vary genetically and that genetic variations are sometimes socially important. What the I.Q. does for the argument is put some teeth into it, which is no doubt why it provokes such a furor. It has been shown that I.Q. scores reflect genetic differences between people (though not entirely), that they correlate with the ordinary meaning of intelligence (though far from perfectly), that they index a necessary (though not sufficient) ingredient in success for most occupations in a modern society. You may disbelieve each...
...knuckled under to the pressure to accept Nixon's loaded compromise, the furor now raised for impeachment the opportunity for the courts to hold the president in contempt, and the Justice Department purge which clearly demonstrates the administration's distaste for justice would not have arisen...