Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bridge was the end for Charles Stuart, but it was just the beginning of the soul searching, self-recriminations and finger pointing by the police and the press. Outraged blacks, many of whom had swallowed Stuart's story as readily as had their white counterparts, let loose a torrent of protest at police mishandling of the case. They were also outraged by the saturation coverage the crime had received, which to them seemed to indict the whole black community...
...Until now silence has been the only form of honesty, but today we cannot be silent any longer. We are being drowned in the torrent of applause from a claque; suffocated in the sewage of lethargy and sunk in the superidealized cesspool...