Word: brouhaha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the biggest brouhaha of all originated in the U.S. Senate over a resolution by Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy and Abraham Ribicoff calling for the withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland and talks leading to a united Ireland. "Ulster is becoming Britain's Viet Nam," said Kennedy in a speech. "America cannot keep silent when men and women of Ireland are dying. Britain has lost its way, and the innocent people of Northern Ireland are the ones who now must suffer . . . The tragedy of Ulster is yet another chapter in the unfolding larger tragedy of the empire...
...house of Herder & Herder of New York has been the most adventuresome in its field. Four years ago it won praise, and in church circles a degree of notoriety, for the erudite but controversial "Dutch Catechism.'' That ruckus will seem a mere parlor game compared to the brouhaha that is likely to greet Herder's latest effort, a show-and-tell encyclopedia of sex called The Sex Book...
...accomplished nothing else, the brouhaha over Georges Pompidou's American sojourn underscored the delicate dilemma of American Jews vis-à-vis Israel. As individuals or as a community, they certainly had every right to express their feelings about the French President's pro-Arab views. But is it sound tactics or proper behavior for any group of U.S. citizens to insult a visiting head of state? Many sober-minded Jews who are ordinarily strangers to picket lines would answer that their consciences demanded loud protest. In fact, compared with other recent demonstrations, these were small and extremely orderly...
Alioto last week denied any illegality or impropriety and depicted the brouhaha as a Republican plot to kill off his political chances. It began in 1962, when 15 Washington State public utility districts hired State Attorney General John O'Connell and his assistant. George Faler, to manage their antitrust suits against electrical manufacturers accused of price fixing. O'Connell in turn retained Alioto, then a private citizen, to handle the suits in court. Alioto's fee was to be 15% of damages won, up to a limit of $1,000,000. He proved so successful, however, that...