Word: hubbub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embarrassingly unconvincing when it tries to manufacture excitement. But there were some statistics that defied optimistic interpretations: the three networks together attracted less than a third of U.S. households on average; even among those who were home watching TV, nearly half turned to entertainment instead. Despite all their hubbub and hype, all their reaching for meaning, the networks have not yet found a way to make elections interesting to all of the people, even some of the time...
...course of research into birth control methods in the 1940s: a patch of erectile tissue in the front wall of the vagina, directly behind the pubic bone, that acts something like a second clitoris. G spot is for the new book about that odd finding, published amid considerable commercial hubbub: a first printing of 150,000 hardback copies by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, and deals with six book clubs...
...vote was close. Five minutes into the voting, a conservative colleague asked him to cast a no vote. "I really don't know what I'm going to do," insisted Hartnett. Then, with less than a minute to go, the Congressman stood up amid the hubbub on the floor. Hartnett gazed up at his wife in the spectator's gallery. He gave a thumbs-up sign, shrugged and pretended to flip a coin...
...industrial robots. Australia is building a wind-power facility, and the $21 million U.S. pavilion, which will house a giant movie screen and talking computers, is to be powered in part by a 5,000-sq.-ft. rooftop solar energy collector. There will be plenty of mindless flash and hubbub as well: clog dancing, exhibition basketball (featuring the Boston Celtics and the Philadelphia 76ers) and football (the New England Patriots, the Pittsburgh Steelers), high school marching bands, fireworks, clowns and a souped-up roller coaster that cruises at fearsome speeds. "The World's Fair is going...
...Amid the hubbub on the Hill last week, the most discussed alternative approach was made by Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee. His proposal came about almost by accident. Speaking before a group of college presidents gathered in Washington, Hollings casually mentioned a plan to slash the budget. Majority Leader Howard Baker heard about the proposal and, eager to explore any possibility, urged Hollings to present it to the Senate...