Word: furore
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...hands to deny that any such offer had been made.) Finally, says Eden, the U.S. considered a naval air strike at Dienbienphu on April 28, 1954, but was deterred by British objections. (Dulles, Eden says, later minimized the possibility of U.S. military involvement and attributed all the furor to Admiral Arthur W. Radford, "whom he was inclined to criticize.") But the fact that the 1954 Geneva Conference finally ended in the negotiated partition of Indo-China Eden clearly regards as his personal triumph, achieved against Dulles' will...
Adenauer was alarmed by the furor the sick manifestations of anti-Semitism in Germany had stirred abroad, particularly in Britain, and by the criticism that present-day Germany is spreading a "cover of silence" over Nazi misdeeds of 20 years ago while ex-Nazis are turning up in high places, in both East and West German governments. Among prominent officials with a Nazi past in Bonn...
Hong Kong's quota restrictions raised a furor in both the crown colony and the U.S. Many of the garment manufacturers are bitterly opposed to the restrictions set up by the Garment Manufacturers' Assoc., which, however, does include 85% of all the manufacturers exporting to the U.S. But, says one exporter realistically: "Put us out of work with high tariffs and you hand the colony to the Reds...
...fitting. Although Harvard consistently ridicules the Eisenhower administration, Secretary of Defense McElroy was awarded an honorary degree in 1958. Why? Although Harvard has turned its back on Christianity--one suspects that even President Pusey began to learn this as he had his angelic wings clipped in the Memorial Church furor--an honorary degree was awarded to no less a personage that His Eminence Cardinal Cushing...
Never before in the 40-year history of the National Football League had two teams met for the championship amid such furor. To see their Colts play the New York Giants, Baltimore fans boosted scalpers' prices to $100 a seat, haled one another into court to fight over jointly held tickets. At the kickoff this week, 57,557 fans were jammed into Baltimore's Memorial Stadium, bellowing like bull-voiced college boys and begging for a replay of last year's stirring 23-17 overtime victory of the Colts over the rugged Giants...