Word: uproars
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After Reverend Borders' great baseball game was over, the congregation was in an excited, happy, uproar. Everyone said, "Amen," not meaning "peace be with you," but "a joyous mission is our proud duty to bear...
Remember Bonnie Honig? She was the associate professor of government who's tenure denial last spring by President Neil L. Rudenstine created a furious uproar among female faculty members calling into question his commitment to diversity. It turns out that Honig, who has since become a tenured professor at Northwestern, was only half the story of that season of academic politics--the half that got reported...
...uproar over the guy who left his intended bride in the lurch [ESSAY, Dec. 8], we must note that this nonevent was not an ordinary wedding. It was a megabuck marriage right up there with a corporate takeover. Perhaps the wayward groom decided that the cost of trading in his Porsche for a Ferrari was too high. Hardly anything to concern the masses. If the jilted wealthy bride really wants to get married, she can run an HEIRESS SEEKS HUSBAND ad, or tour Europe interviewing studs. When she finds the right man, she can mold him into her very...
...miscalculation. Beyond the health-care disaster, she became the first First Lady to be subpoenaed by a federal grand jury, this one looking into the mysterious reappearance of her Rose Law Firm billing records, of interest in the Whitewater investigation. Earlier in the term, there had been an uproar over her involvement in the firings at the White House travel office, and later over her possible hand in the gathering of FBI files on Republicans who had worked in the White House. By Election Day 1996, every word and deed of this entirely novel First Lady was shadowed...
Zhou said much of the uproar over Chinese human-rights violations has been overblown and that the country's record has improved significantly in the last few years...