Word: furore
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...education could operate. Two million children attend religious classes. For a while it looked like any program of religious education might be unconstitutional. But now, anyone over the line on the New Yorkers' side is safe. And the Champaign case decision sets up the other limit. For all the furor that was raised, the line was a good one to draw...
Amidst the Democratic furor, politicians and pundits took time to look across the fence and ask a question: What did Harry Truman's announcement mean to the Republicans? Bob Taft thought it made no difference in the campaign for the G.O.P. nomination. Some other political strategists thought it would force Taft to re-pitch his campaign, because Truman has been his chief target. Ike's position, in one sense, was less difficult now: he wouldn't have to run against the man who was his Commander-in-Chief...
While the Eisenhower men were thus expressing confidence, Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft and his managers and organizations were stumping around the U.S. scooping up pledged delegates. By January, the Ike forces decided that the "only question" had better be answered quickly. With considerable transatlantic furor, they brought forth an announcement: Ike is a Republican; he will accept the nomination, if offered. But it was soon apparent that the magic words had not produced the desired effect. There was no great G.O.P. swing toward Ike, although he continued to be an overwhelming favorite among independent voters...
...them, too. Shops and factories have been creeping in upon the spires like jungle weed-"a base and brickish skirt," cried Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1879, that "sours that neighbor-nature thy grey beauty is grounded best in . . ." Last week the base and brickish skirt was creating a bitterer furor than ever. The center of the storm: the Oxford and District...
...Truman's original statement on the question of representation at the Holy See blew itself out. Although the issue is still sufficient to produce a few decibals from Texas, it has faded from the halls of Congress, from the newspapers, and even from many Protestant pulpits. Now that the furor has subsided, it is possible to detect a few sane arguments here and there...