Word: dustup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dustup over the Japanese study is the latest round in an ongoing debate. Other studies have indicated that passive smoking can exacerbate symptoms in people with allergies and heart disease and impair lung functioning in healthy adults. Some research has found that children whose parents smoke suffer more respiratory-tract illness. Only one thing is certain: where there's tobacco smoke, there's bound to be fire...
Last week new controversy erupted over the legitimacy of that succession. The dustup results from the chance discovery of what appears to be a transcript of a blessing given by Smith to his son Joseph III. In it the Prophet declares the boy to be his chosen successor...
...politics and ageless human indulgence has created Britain's biggest theatrical controversy in a decade. Howard Brenton's below-the-belt pageant, written with profane wit and political passion, is presented under the high-flown auspices of the National Theater, which has been threatened in the ensuing dustup with various reprisals, including the withdrawal of government endowment that totals over $1.5 million...
...upon the press, today's candidates are too busy trying to catch its eye. Watch John Connally attempting to prove what an amiable fellow he is by jovially first-naming Mike Wallace all through the 60 Minutes program in which Wallace skillfully cuts him up. The first important dustup over press bias has come from Tom Shales, the Washington Post's usually acute television critic. He accused all three networks of having had "a field day playing Get Teddy." He also discovered an unnamed "veteran political observer" to explain it: "There's been so much garbage about...