Word: uproarous
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...some scuffling in the leaves and it sort of spooked me, to honest with you," he said. Littleton said he had only started work for the Skakels that night, the night before Halloween. He added that when he arrived back at house the next day it was in an uproar with police everywhere. He said he was then asked by Skakel's father Rushton to take Michael and his siblings to a family home in Windham, New York. "When I entered the home there was approximately 10 to 15 men in suits and ties, discussing what I don't know...
...American Catholics looked to the Vatican for some kind of sign. The silence out of Rome was deafening until last Monday, when the Pope finally issued a call. America's embattled Cardinals--all 13 of them--were summoned to an unprecedented meeting to be solely devoted to the spreading uproar...
Some have claimed that the uproar over the latest line of shirts is an overreaction, one predicated on a kind of knee-jerk political correctness that refuses to allow America’s diversity a place in intelligent humor. But on the contrary, this outrage represents the understanding that blatant and degrading stereotypes are destructive not only to the groups directly targeted but also to an inclusive American society as a whole. Such racist stereotypes, by their very nature, are not funny. The fact that diverse groups have rallied together in large numbers to resist this latest incarnation of cultural...
...American Catholics looked to the Vatican for some kind of sign. The silence out of Rome was deafening until last Monday, when the Pope finally issued a call. America's embattled Cardinals - all 13 of them - were summoned to an unprecedented meeting to be solely devoted to the spreading uproar...
...almost hysterical uproar blew up over the BBC's coverage of the royal death. The trigger was BBC newscaster Peter Sissons, who did not switch his maroon tie to the traditional black tie of mourning as did presenters on the independent channels in those first hours of the royal death coverage. There were other charges, led by the right-wing Daily Mail, of insensitive BBC interviewing and claims that Prince Charles had been angry enough to give the rival ITV channel an interview about his grandmother rather than the BBC. It turned out, however, that the interview had been allotted...