Word: uproarous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...words could equally apply to the hordes of developers who in recent times have swept over London. Their relentless building has gone largely unopposed, even when it has demolished rich portions of the city's heritage. But for the past few weeks all of London has been in an uproar over the scheduled destruction of two of the city's recently discovered archaeological treasures: the ruins of a Roman bath complex that dates back 2,000 years and the underground remains of the Rose, the Elizabethan theater where Shakespeare may have premiered Titus Andronicus and Henry VI and even trod...
Third, Harvard administrators have no reason to act consistently when student leaders do not compare notes. As long as they deal with each group separately, administrators can make arbitrary decisions without causing an uproar. In the past, they have done this in assigning office space, setting "caps" on groups' fundraising efforts and allotting dorm space to groups arriving before registration. Similarly, they can use one group against another, as they used the House Committees to circumvent the Undergraduate Council on the student alcohol policy...
...uproar transformed last week's meeting of the American Chemical Society in Dallas into the scientific equivalent of a championship basketball game. The Dallas conference packed in some 7,000 chemists hoping for what society executive director John Crum called "the experience of a lifetime." The crowd was there to hear chemistry's new superstar, B. Stanley Pons, describe and defend the experiment that had catapulted him and British colleague Martin Fleischmann to instant fame only a few weeks earlier. Pons and Fleischmann claim to have produced controlled nuclear fusion in a jar at room temperature. If Pons, a professor...
...major public issue, with Washington--Bush's place of residence--making headlines as the nation's murder capital. Bush balked on using the issue as an opportunity to make a public stand, and only issued his mediocre response--a temporary ban on some automatic weapons after considerable public uproar...
...years later, President Nathan M. Pusey '28 stepped down, and Law School Dean Derek C. Bok, who won praise during the student uproar for his moderate stance, assumed the University's top post...