Word: uproars
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This realization came too late to Nussbaum, who brought to Washington the truculent manner of a big-city courtroom litigator and the political instincts of a country parson. His involvement in several notable White House debacles, including the travel-office uproar, the extended search for an Attorney General and the choice of an easily targeted Lani Guinier for a top Justice Department post, earned him the reputation of a Beltway naif and worse. Until last week the most serious charges against him involved his actions after the apparent suicide last year of White House lawyer Vincent Foster, when Nussbaum interfered...
Annab said, however, that he was disappointedby the lack of national uproar about the incident,and he said he hoped the incident would not beforgotten so soon...
...Amid the uproar, I participated in a public-radio panel discussion of these issues. One of the panelists, Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, argued that the media spend too much time on black-Jewish relations, that TIME should have talked more about the offenses in Muhammad's speech to Roman Catholics, women, gays and others. I agreed with him about the second half of that statement. But it seems to me that there could be no more significant conflict than the one between Jewish and black people since the questions it raises...
...Rising uproar from outside the hall, women's voices shouting "Take back the night!" "Viva Lorena!" and "We know you're in there, rapists...
...hormone engineered to boost cows' output creates an uproar...