Word: brouhaha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the recent brouhaha about what extreme circumstances might prompt U.S. intervention in the Middle East and the revelations about the nature of covert CIA meddling in Chile and elsewhere, the Senators might be forgiven for seeing spooks under every bed. Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey found the prospect "fraught with danger." Henry Jackson declared that the notion "completely baffled" him and demanded a Senate investigation...
...Jacqueline Verrett's version of what precipitated the cyclamate brouhaha of 1969-70 is not correct. Like other scientists, Dr. Verrett likes to think it was she who sank cyclamate...
...referring to the celebrity of those piano stools, though, but to the brouhaha that followed the publication, in 1970, of her feminist doctoral thesis, Sexual Politics. Millett studied literature at Minnesota and Oxford and taught at Columbia. She had always been primarily an academic, as the book showed by combining turgid prose with a tendency to uncharitable generalization. But the burgeoning women's liberation movement needed a source book, and the press needed a symbol. In a matter of weeks, Kate Millett saw herself metamorphosed from "unknown sculptor to media...
...have gone on record saying that Magure cannot be expected to conduct a fair study on the library. Philip Burling, a representative of the Cambridge Civic Association, and the Rev. Richard J. Shmaruk, a member of the task force, also remain unconvinced of Maguire's innocence in the Massport brouhaha...
...streakers galvanized the bleachers by running from top to bottom. But in the left field stands a fat man with his shirt off drunkenly played the exhibitionist, puckishly pulling down his pants at various inspired moments. The fans booed when equally fat policemen swaggered over to curtail the brouhaha...