Word: uproars
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...jacket, not the kind of thing that royalty ordinarily does for commoners. In a nation where few had forgiven Edward VIII for giving up his throne because he insisted on marrying a divorced woman, the prospect that Margaret might wed a divorced man led to a huge public uproar...
...with the spat with West, several supporters said that the columnists in question jumped to conclusions. Summers maintained that the uproar was at its root a miscommunication. But, conservatives emphasized the dispute’s political nature—citing a supposed attack on affirmative action and challenge to an academically questionable department...
We’re in Newton on New Year’s Day when the call comes in: a surprise press conference. In a characteristic show of overzealous journalism, we drop all our plans for the day. Larry Summers has blown his hand, a department (Af-Am) is in uproar and now Jesse Jackson has descended on fair Cambridge. The conference is at 12:30. It’s 12:30 and we reporters are 12 miles away. We have negative time...
...rule at the Virginia Military Institute has at least one women's legal group in an uproar. And their ire is perfectly understandable - if totally misdirected. The regulation, formally issued January 14th, demands the voluntary departure of cadets who get married, become pregnant, or cause someone else to become pregnant. Unfair, charges the National Women's Law Center; the new rules violate anti-discrimination laws established to protect pregnant women. The NWLC is right; the VMI rules are discriminatory - but not for the reasons the NWLC argues...
...book, a brazen celebration of bad girls and contradiction, was ostensibly not about Wurtzel herself, and the photo triggered uproar among the press, few of whom failed to mention it in reviews. It also helped attract considerable attention among readers, who have unfailingly responded better to Wurtzel than the press and made her books bestsellers...