Word: furore
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...Cabinet). The hubbub prompted a blunt question at the President's press conference: Was Ike planning to resign? Replied the President coldly: "The worst rot that I have heard since I have been in this office." There was another subject that was arousing some Eisenhower ire: the budget furor. "It is an easy thing to make speeches about," he said, "but it is a very hard thing to do much about ... If we are going to wage peace abroad and try to provide the leadership and the services at home that our people demand, then we have...
...running Cornelia's society. In Rome after their separation, the Connellys had seen each other every ten days; but in Protestant England even the most carefully chaperoned visits could start tales of convent immorality. He alarmed the hierarchy by bursting into Cornelia's convent. Bitter over the furor that arose, Pierce retaliated by taking their three children to Italy. In 1848 he returned to England, made a second descent on the convent, and raged at the chaplain for six hours because Cornelia refused...
Star Witness. To support his claim that the fiscal 1958 budget is much too big, Byrd happily cited a top member of President Eisenhower's own team: Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey, who set the budget furor stirring last January with his now famous prediction that high taxes, continued for years on end, would bring on "a depression that will curl your hair...
...Reporter Pressman replied: "You'll have to eject us." Then he tried to force the council's hand by asking it to vote on whether he could remain. Pressman's request was denied; he and his crew were bounced by the sergeant at arms. But the furor brought top New York broadcasting brass together for a showdown with the council...
...fondness for the subject satirized. As a longtime professional soldier who enlisted in the French Foreign Legion at 17 and saw action with the Wehrmacht in France and Africa during World War II. he gives full marks to courage, loyalty and military skill. Turned blind, these virtues become the "Furor teutonicus," a vice at which Author Opitz takes wry derisive aim, proving that a laugh can be deadlier than a Luger...