Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were two immediate predictions as to the consequences: 1) that the uproar would jeopardize Frankie's friendship with his chief political patron, Vice President Spiro Agnew; 2) that the friendship might jeopardize Agnew's ties with his own patron, Richard Nixon...
...guilty plea by the four defendants staved off a prospective courtroom uproar-testimony that Hunt had told them the Watergate bugging had been approved by the White House, specifically by two presidential advisers...
...Uproar. His second term soon turned frustrating. Scarcely a month went by without some congressional committee grilling one of his friends for some peccadillo or outright misfeasance. China had been taken over by Communists, contributing to the charge that the State Department was "soft on Communism." When the invasion of South Korea started, Truman reacted with typical dispatch. In a space of 60 hours, he ordered U.S. forces into battle and got U.N. endorsement. When General Douglas MacArthur tried to bully him from abroad and issued battlefront ukases challenging U.S. policy, Truman did not hesitate. He recalled the hero...
...baptized. Liv went on Norwegian TV to defend her action in an emotion-charged statement. Though she still believes she acted morally and honestly in not marrying Bergman-"I feel it would be very difficult to twice stand and say to God you will love one another"-the uproar was obviously a painful and lasting trauma...
...more than Nixon did Disraeli believe in open diplomacy. His backstairs dealings aroused as much opposition. Just as Nixon caused an uproar by selling wheat too cheaply to the Russians, so did Disraeli upset sensibilities by negotiating a loan at 13% from the Rothschilds to buy a major interest for Britain in the Suez Canal. Doubtful though some of his means were, Disraeli achieved his goals. By promoting a general European settlement, he helped maintain the Victorian peace, which was to last longer than any period of peace Europe had known since the early days of the Roman Empire...