Word: uproarous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However sensible, those are ideas that would take a long time to implement. The near-term outlook thus remains for an odd combination of intermittent, savage but low-intensity fighting in Nicaragua and a continuing, much louder political uproar in both Central America...
...similar to Siberia and thus a suitable proving ground for the missile's sophisticated terrain-reading equipment. Trudeau tentatively agreed to the proposal. But the news was leaked to a Canadian reporter in Washington, and it ended up on the front page of newspapers across Canada. In the uproar that followed, Trudeau hastily denied any binding commitment to the cruise decision...
Action is needed now, for soon the uproar will die down; it always has in the past. And meanwhile attendance will keep dropping at women's marches, posters will keep featuring degrading "teasers" to titillate ticket-buyers, and men will continue to rape women, quietly perhaps, in dark alleys--not with a cheering barroom audience, but with a silent and much larger...
When Virginia Woolf opened in 1962, it put the theatrical community into a uproar. Assist partisans jumped to thrust Albee into the Arthur Mailer Eugene O'Neill Tennessee Williams axis of great American playwrights its detractors lambasted it with a passion that could only indicate that Albee had indeed hit a few raw nerves. One noted drama critic addressed the popular view that the play could not be ignored saving. That's right, there is no way that we can ignore danger and disease. But it is not right therefore to welcome the plague into our midst...
...peace plan. The problem was that the word homeland, like so many other bits of language concerning the Middle East, has become such a buzzword that it automatically invites an angry reaction. When Jimmy Carter spoke of the need for a Palestinian homeland in 1977, he provoked an uproar in Israel. So once again the White House insisted that the President had meant to say nothing new and that he was merely restating his call for a future link between a West Bank entity and Jordan...