Word: furore
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...nomination as Chief Justice. In public, the G.O.P. was more concerned with avoiding any semblance of vindictiveness against the court's only Jew (though the New York Post, a Jewish-oriented newspaper, called for Fortas' resignation). In fact, Republicans had little reason to involve themselves in the furor. As one White House aide put it: "The feeling around here is that Fortas is going to have to resign, so why get into...
...able to live as long as a month with the artificial heart. When the question was repeated later in the week, however, his reply was more circumspect. "I don't know," he said. "This is a human being we're working with." As a result of the furor provoked by the Karp case and the still unresolved questions of procedure and ethics, heart surgeons are likely to be extremely hesitant before they try to duplicate Dr. Cooley's desperate...
...last sentence caused the greatest furor because opponents felt it could be taken out of context. "Tomorrow Harvard SDS could disrupt a class, and people could say the HUC was in favor of bringing gin police against students,' Eli M. Noam '70 said. The sentence was retained by a vote...
...Nixon's behind-the-scenes action in his administration's first domestic crisis has measurably dampened hopes for a swing away from conservative campaign stands. Although the administration's final policy on Southern segregation is still hard to predict, the skirmishes and furor of the last two weeks suggest that Nixon's policy will be a step backwards from Lyndon Johnson's hard-line stand...
...Powell, and he is talking about himself. In less than a year Powell, the Conservative M.P. who looks like a tensed-up Terry-Thomas and sprinkles his speeches with allusions to classical history, has emerged as his own kind of politician-prophet. In the process, he has stirred a furor both in Britain and abroad. For what Powell sees-and speaks for-is the alarm, fear and resentment of the white British toward the African and Asian peoples of the Commonwealth who have emigrated to Britain...