Word: furore
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...join the Baghdad pact. Then the King boarded his personal plane, circled over his capital city of Amman to watch the effect. Mobs continued marching through the streets, and by now professional porters were distributing stones from baskets on their backs. But by week's end, the furor had abated, especially after the King freed 1,000 arrested rioters. The toll: at least 16 dead, more than 100 injured...
This is to be regretted, because the significance of the Till case could not have been much clearer to Mr. Halberstam if he had been familiar with the Scottsboro case of the 1930's, when nine men were railroaded to death and to jail, and almost nothing of the furor of the Till case was heard...
Stacia Zzyzzle (pronounced Ze-zy-zel) foiled the attempt. Stacia, who lives at 11 Phillips St. "with my husband," can be reached at CA 7-5719. "we just moved here from Waterbury, Conn.," she said last night, "and we don't quite understand what all this furor about the last listing in the book is about...
...decades had there been so much furor about the economic situation of U.S. farmers. There were recurring rumors that Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson might be forced out of the Cabinet; there were shouts for a return to the old, rigid, farm-price supports at 90% of parity. Some pundits even began to write about general "poverty" on U.S. farms...
When Witness Dodge left the stand, it was clear that, after all the furor, his aim of 1953 was now on its way toward realization. The city of Memphis' decision to build its own power plant, thereby making the Dixon-Yates plan unnecessary, will 1) ease the load on TVA, 2) save money in the federal budget...