Word: uproarous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing. To attack the territory of another, and perhaps kill his civilians, is something different. The means were there. The R.A.F. Vulcans were in service and their bomb loads ready. There was little doubt that they could greatly reduce, even entirely neutralize, the Argentine air force. Would the resulting uproar in the Organization of American States and perhaps in the United Nations, and the probable worldwide shift in sympathy toward the Argentines be worth it? Would it not be preferable to accept the certainty of higher casualties and the possibility of stalemate-or even failure-in the assault...
...principal enthusiast for civil defense is Thomas K. Jones, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for strategic theater nuclear forces. Jones, a former missile planner at Boeing, caused an uproar by telling a Los Angeles Times interviewer how Americans might survive a nuclear attack. Said he: "Dig a hole, cover it with a couple of doors, and then throw three feet of dirt on top. Everyone's going to make it if there are enough shovels to go around...
EXCEPT THAT, once confessed, Sontag seems to want the rest of us to say her Hail Marys for her. The uproar that her speech set off at hysterics in The Nation can rightly be termed an uproar (may indicate there are a few remaining who see Sontag's speech as heresy, the fact that student activists on this campus have been more concerned about South African than the Ukraine might be proof of a subtle. Perhaps subconscious, willingness to set up double standards for "leftist" regimes (The again, it might not be evidence. South Africa, after all doesn't have...
...potential for violence is "probably less than average." So a parole board ordered his release in January. But instead of getting out, Fain unwillingly has become an entry in California legal annals. Twice now he has won a parole only to have it short-circuited by a public uproar-making him the first person to be held past his proposed release expressly because of community pressure...
...majority of the class was determined to take revenge against Woodbury, who, by this point had very few friends or supporters. On Exhibition Day, diarist Dodge recalls the "Black's" speech being "hissed for a full five minutes. The chapel was in perfect uproar...