Word: brouhaha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brouhaha erupted when Yankee Lou Piniella, after being thrown out at home by an incredible throw by Sox outfielder Dwight Evans, bowled down Sox catcher Carlton Fisk in the hopes of jarring the ball from Fisk's hand. Fisk thanked him with a solid right, and both teams converged on home plate to have...
...crowding brouhaha increased in intensity last week as a group of Mather students produced statistics in support of their previously unsubstantiated claim that the University's crowding formula is biased against Mather...
...when the brouhaha erupted over the new Woodward and Bernstein book I was ready. William F. Buckley, William Safire, even Time Magazine were all critical; some of the big leakers were running for cover; and The Boston Globe was splashing the sordid details on its front page. Nobody would comment. Editors and reporters pontificated and prevaricated. I was prepared for some serious wallowing: visions of Nixon entering the terminal throes of his own hysteria, Pat snitching bourbon from the liquor cabinet, Kissinger taping all his phone calls, Eddie Cox worrying that his father-in-law might kill himself rather than...
Salisbury's Meikles Hotel still serves excellent Scottish smoked salmon in its elegant La Fontaine restaurant. As she nibbled at a portion last week, a well-dressed Salisbury matron observed that "the brouhaha over black rule was a bit of a bother, but the talks are ended and that's all over now." Did she see anything ominous in the breakdown of black-white dialogue? "Oh heavens, no. My servant tells me all of his people want us to stay and run the country. He's terribly trustworthy, you know...
...bursar's card merry-go-round began to revolve in September 1974, when the University unveiled its all-new bursar's card with the machine-detectable identification stripe. A brouhaha arose immediately over the use of Polaroid Corporation cards, which are used to make identification passes in South Africa. Gibson said at the time that Polaroid had been chosen because no other companies could make a card that would accept encoding...