Word: furor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Europeans became fearful of hormone supplements in the early 1980s after the synthetic hormone diethylstilbestrol, or DES, was detected several times in baby food made with veal. (The growth-inducing compound, which has been linked to cancer and birth defects, was banned in the U.S. in 1979.) Amid the furor, four countries prohibited all hormone use in cattle. The E.C. adopted the restriction in 1985, and this month banned the importation of hormone- treated meat...
Joyous floor traders on the Tokyo Stock Exchange celebrated the end of 1988 with a traditional hand-clap ceremony last week as share prices closed at record levels. But their applause could not drown out the rising furor over a stock scandal that has already toppled several of Japan's leading business and political figures. Not since former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was convicted of taking bribes from Lockheed during the mid-'70s have the Japanese been so shaken by disclosures of official wrongdoing. As the scandal spreads, it threatens to tarnish Japan's image abroad and to undermine...
...political thriller Favorite Son sparked a minor furor with suggestive scenes of bondage and other kinky sex. Geraldo Rivera put a few noses out of joint with his grisly NBC special on satanic cults. Male strippers flaunted their pecs and pelvises in the ABC movie Ladykillers, while NBC's The F.B.I. Murders culminated in perhaps the longest and bloodiest shoot-out in TV history. Even the classy ABC mini-series War and Remembrance turned off some viewers with its graphic scenes of Nazi atrocities...
Columbia head football Coach Larry McElreavy, who led his team to its first victory in five years, announced his resignation last month in the wake of a public furor over allegations of personal misconduct...
...contrast between the two campaigns' responses to attacks was made clear at the Republican Convention when a furor broke out over the nomination of Dan Quayle for Vice President. The day after that announcement, delegates found, waiting for them on their seats in the convention hall, statements from veterans' groups that it was no disgrace to serve in the National Guard and from National Guardsmen saying it was an honor to serve with them. By the time the convention session began, each floor whip had a set of quotations from military spokesmen defending Quayle's patriotism. Attacks were anticipated...