Word: furore
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...Restoration was a delirium of anti-Catholic hatred. Although the frenzy was started by a supposed plot to murder the King, Charles tempered the witch hunt when he could, signed death warrants when he had to, and eventually restored order. Pearson tells the famed story of how, at the furor's height, a boisterous mob stopped a gilded carriage, thinking that Charles's French mistress, Louise de Keroualle, was inside. Nell Gwynn saved matters by sticking her head out and saying, "Pray, good people, be civil: I am the Protestant whore...
...Kennedy become another Al Smith. As one Holy See official put it: "The Vatican thinks in long-range terms. It would rather wait another generation, if necessary, and see a Catholic President happily elevated to the presidency than have him installed sooner amidst a political and religious furor...
Evidently to avoid any chance of "furor" last week, there was a significant omission from the guest list at Apostolic Delegate Vagnozzi's dinner. Though it included Democratic Senators Thomas Dodd and John Pastore, as well as Democratic Representatives Peter Rodino Jr. and John Rooney, absent was Senator John F. Kennedy...
...witnesses, and how-standing in a cagelike dock and facing a flower-decked bench-they heard the verdict. This week's Part II deals with the long, futile fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the chair-the hunt for new evidence, the repeated appeals, the worldwide furor, and the final confrontation of the accused and their judge as he imposes sentence after Vanzetti's powerful speech: "I am so convinced to be right that if you can kill me two times, I would live again to do what I have done already...
Around the World. In the midst of the furor. Hal Hayes suddenly reappeared at his Beverly Hills home, then called reporters to the bar of a Sunset Strip restaurant. He had not been "missing," he told . them, but had been around the world. He had been to the summit con ference in Paris, and to Hong Kong, Cairo and Beirut; he had been negotiating to build missile bases in France. Italy and Pakistan. "I haven't been hiding from anyone," said Hal Hayes. "Everybody is going to get paid. As of tonight, we've written $40 million worth...