Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...College, day one of Professor Leonard Jeffries' spring semester class, African Heritage 101, begins meekly -- no sign of the brouhaha that surrounded Jeffries' dismissal in 1992 from his post as chairman of the college's Black Studies department for having allegedly made anti-Semitic statements; no sign of the uproar that greeted Jeffries' court-ordered reinstatement (and $400,000 damages award) last August; no sign of the outraged editorials that have made Jeffries a national figure. And no sign of Jeffries. Forty-five minutes after class was scheduled to start in a windowless, first-floor lecture hall, he still...
...Uproar, cheers, gestures of fists upraised and twirling, chorus of "Har! Har! Har!," here and there a wagonmaster's drawn-out John Wayne...
What cannot be used to account for the sudden uproar is any commensurate increase in crime generally. The FBI figures for the first six months of 1993, the latest available, show violent crime down 3%. Crime overall was down 4%. But the national psyche doesn't make seasonal adjustments. Whatever the latest backlash owes to hype and hysteria, it is also a response to a festering problem. Most crime is down or leveling out, but only when compared with the high plateau it reached in the late '70s. It's hard to take comfort from the news that the murder...
...flees, and is chased through the small alleys and homes of Belfast; meanwhile, its inhabitants beat the walls and pavement with trash can lids to raise an alarm. Soon a riot has been provoked, and English tanks and soldiers careen through the streets. The young man who started this uproar is Gerry Conlon...
...that explosion, the Administration affirmed the policy that had so exercised the President, a Health and Human Services Department order directing the states to help pay for abortions for low-income women in cases of rape or incest. The states, including many that finance abortions liberally, are in an uproar over it. They contend that the Federal Government should only rarely dictate rules to the states and that serious consultation should take place when such mandates are considered -- as one of the President's own Executive Orders directs. Beyond the absence of dialogue -- HHS's bolt came without warning...