Word: uproarous
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...uproar in Dunster caught Starr by surprise. He heard the reaction in dilute form, since he had taken leave from school and was working for the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
Most Japanese, raised in an essentially homogeneous society, deny that racism exists in their islands. Still, every so often, Tokyo proves that insularity breeds bigotry. In 1986 former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone touched off an uproar by declaring that blacks and minorities lowered the I.Q. of Americans. Two weeks ago, another Japanese official was at it. Following a police raid on a red-light district, Justice Minister Seiroku Kajiyama casually commented that prostitutes ruined neighborhoods, then added, "It's like in America when neighborhoods become mixed because blacks move in and whites are forced...
...dirty job, and nobody should have to do it. And athletes deserve their privacy, too--no one should have to change in front of a horde of male or female reporters. Imagine the uproar if a male reporter tried to enter a women's locker room...
...security people turned out to be wrong. The Americans caught us in the act of installing the missiles. In spite of all the uproar, we pushed ahead. When we began shipping the nuclear warheads, I constantly feared they would capture our ships. But they didn't. We installed the 42 missiles...
...agency's more sanguine estimates of Soviet intentions and capabilities. In 1980 Bush admitted he had never favored the Team-B exercise. "It was forced on me by the White House," said Bush. By most accounts the President preferred abolishing PFIAB, but was eager to avoid a predicted congressional uproar. Recasting PFIAB so that its focus will probably be narrow represents the path of least resistance -- a politically clever but intellectually shortsighted move. Bush doesn't need intelligence reports that induce sleep; he needs the kind of thought-provoking analysis that can substitute...