Word: uproarous
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...danger" implicit in all the uproar is of empty-headed, suggestible black kids, crouching by their boom boxes, waiting for the word. But what Ice- T's fans know and his detractors obviously don't is that Cop Killer is just one more entry in pop music's long history of macho hyperbole and violent boast. Flip to the classic-rock station, and you might catch the Rolling Stones announcing "the time is right for violent revo-loo-shun!" from their 1968 hit Street Fighting Man. And where were the defenders of our law- ( enforcement officers when a white British...
...recalls the minor uproar in Indianapolis,Ind. when the NCAA seeded him third in the 400 IM.He remembers swimmers form Texas (one who hadtransferred from Harvard) heckling him that hewould never finish...
...uproar ended when state officials mandated that the new officers must all come form the "reserve list," officers from other area departments who were previously laid...
...Parody created an uproar last month among Law School students and faculty. Students held a vigil in front of Pound Hall on April 10 in response to the spoof, which was released on April 4 at a banquet honoring recently elected Review editors...
...leak caused an uproar on Capitol Hill, where legislators are looking to cut costs and share burdens. Senator Joseph Biden, a Democrat, scoffed at the idea of "America as 'Globocop.' " At a recent international conference in Lisbon, I found Europeans and Japanese still fretting about the Times's scoop, which they took as proof that the U.S. is bent on giving new meaning to old cliches like Pax Americana and Uncle Sam as the world's policeman...