Word: furor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...significant enough, politicians come chasing. Playboy, Jimmy Carter decided, appeals to young fellows who do not follow the news closely and would never sit still for involved arguments, but might respond to idealized noises made amiably. The result was the famous "lust in my heart" interview. Even after that furor, Ronald Reagan in 1980 submitted to the same Playboy interviewer, Robert Scheer, an adroitly argumentative questioner. Scheer interviewed him for the Los Angeles Times and for a profile in Playboy, and found Reagan to be secure in his convictions and eager for disputation. They talked so often on the campaign...
...furor over firearms...
Michael Pagan, an unemployed laborer, sparked a national furor 6½ months ago when he wandered into Queen Elizabeth II's Buckingham Palace bedroom for an early-morning chat. After several court appearances, he was sent to a maximum-security hospital for psychiatric treatment. Pagan was freed last week by a mental health review tribunal on the grounds that he no longer posed a danger to others. Many Britons thought otherwise. Conservative Member of Parliament Sheila Faith had one word for the decision: "incomprehensible...
FRANCE Combat Rations Furor over defense cuts
...other leaked statements by the air force and navy chiefs of staff, revealing what they said were still secret government studies of making major cutbacks in military manpower and procurement between 1984 and 1988. The result, :hey claimed, would be grave damage to France's defenses. As public furor over the spending cuts mounted, Premier Pierre Mauroy responded angrily, calling the disclosures part of a political "operation cooked up to cast doubt on the government's will to defend the country...