Word: uproarous
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...other was so shunned by the Harvard community that he was forced to change his schedule completely and enter a side door. He never spoke to an open audience or accomplished what he came to do. The uproar over the whole affair reached a crescendo seldom seen here...
When it gets right down to the nitty gritty of laying blame and answering the elusive question "why?," the report comes as the authoritative, official "Oh my God!"--the stamped-in-ink echo of last year's uproar. The report gets stuck in a set of stock condemnations--hasty, unreasonable, reckless--that don't tell us anything...
...political foes. Since 1980, more than 15 anti-Gaddafi Libyan exiles have been assassinated in Italy, England, West Germany, Greece and the U.S. More than 50 people were injured in two London bombings in 1984 that were presumed to be of Libyan origin. That same year Gaddafi caused an uproar in London, when gunfire from the Libyan embassy / killed a British policewoman and injured eleven Libyan dissident demonstrators...
...behind the choice of language was an assessment that for all the uproar following the voting, President Marcos still had the upper hand, at least in the short term. There were no signs last week, for example, that the country's 230,000-member armed forces were about to disintegrate in Marcos' hands. Said a White House official: "It's obvious that Marcos has control...
Ginsberg, who has been a Boston radio disc jockey since 1956, likened the current uproar over obscenity in rock music lyrics to previous public outcries which occurred with Elvis "the Pelvis" Presley and the long-haired Beatles...