Word: uproarous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That advice, so far, has been to pursue the strategies used in the much-publicized Howard Beach case, in which a gang of white thugs chased a Black man to his death: incite the Black community to an uproar over the lack of justice for Black victims; use the media to publicize the case; and refuse to cooperate with the system until a special prosecutor is appointed to handle the case...
...contents of sealed envelopes handed him by his parishioners, Randi, then 15, was outraged. "He was using the old 'one-ahead' method," Randi explains, still indignant. Striding to the pulpit, he fished one of the opened envelopes out of a wastebasket and accused the preacher of cheating. An uproar followed, and Randi was arrested for disturbing a religious meeting. At the police station, he vowed that he would someday fight back against those who defiled...
...YORK--Former White House spokesman Larry Speakes quit as chief spokesman for Merrill Lynch & Co. yesterday, days after he created an uproar by admitting he twice changed President Reagan's quotes in relating them to the press...
...denial, has whipsawed the public response to AIDS -- from early dismissal to doomsday and back again -- ever since the epidemic began seven years ago. Last week, in a sensationalistic book guaranteed to punch panic buttons across the nation, Sex Therapists Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson triggered an uproar in the scientific community. Contrary to accepted wisdom and to all that is so far known by medicine, they claim the "AIDS virus is now running rampant in the heterosexual community" and can be transmitted through casual contact. Says Masters: "We are sounding an important warning. A lot of people think...
...their controversial new book, Crisis: Heterosexual Behavior in the Age of AIDS, Sex Therapists Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson answer yes, and provoke an uproar from the medical community. -- Amid popular confusion about the danger of AIDS, researchers are beginning to learn more about the virus and how it is transmitted during sex between men and women...