Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tennis fans are used to such antics. Ever since the young man with the impish grin, two-fisted backhand and high-octane temper burst into pro tennis three years ago, the keepers of decorum have been alternating between disgust at his behavior and admiration for his play. Rumania's Ilie ("Nasty") Nastase, of course, has for years been notorious for his displays of anger and unsportsmanlike conduct, but James Connors has taken the art of on-court temperament to new heights ? or depths. Given an audience, Connors can seldom resist the temptation to ham. Occasionally he loses control...
Radcliffe's concern with the Technicians may just be decorum as the varsity easily stroked through a Princeton boat which had earlier whipped MIT by five seconds...
...crunching as the hero (Sonny Chiba) dispatched platoons of hoodlums, or the blood that spurted into the camera from mouths and noses. Maybe the eye gougings did it. Certainly, by the time Chiba attacked a would-be rapist-leveling him with a flying fist and tearing his privates off, decorum and community standards had been sufficiently outraged so that a swift X was bestowed. Even more swiftly, the American distributors seized on this dubious honor and tried to turn it to their advantage...
...year elections and the reasonable prospect of wresting the White House from Gerald Ford in 1976. And though some of the old intramural conflicts still struck sparks, the downs and ups seemed to have modulated the party: compromise, conciliation, even-for Democrats in conclave-an unwonted decorum dominated what in the end turned into a virtual love feast in Kansas City's red, white-and blue-festooned Municipal Auditorium...
...pills: "Good morning. I have a message for you. It's that God gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life." Moments later, the ballet of death begins again as white screens wheel and circle to shield in final decorum the bed of a dying patient...