Word: firestorm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reality: I suppose that this one is technically true, but it's a sugar-coated version of reality. A more accurate account would be: "The council impetuously voted to invite ROTC back onto campus, and then retreated when it realized that it had provoked a firestorm of controversy...
They questioned whether Bork had the inclination or power to replace Cox with a strong successor who would pursue the truth. They said Leon Jaworski, Cox's successor, was named because the Nixon administration bowed to "a firestorm" of public opinion and congressional pressure...
...What started as a firestorm has turned into a firm resolution to get this thing done. I've been at this for five years and I don't want to lose now," Slive told The Crimson...
...What started as a firestorm has turned into a firm resolution to get this thing done. I've been at this for five years and I don't want to lose now," Slive told The Crimson...
...chemists at the University of Chicago have added an important new twist to this version of the apocalypse. Edward Anders and his colleagues reported in the journal Science last week that they had found evidence of a global firestorm that raged about the time the dinosaurs disappeared. The conflagration, they say, suggests that the consequences of a great Cretaceous impact were even worse than the Alvarezes had dreamed...