Word: hubbub
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...town of Newport, Maine, citizens took advantage of their right to vote in order to decide a burgeoning community controversy over topless gardening. The hubbub began this past summer when Desiree Davis, a conscientious homeowner, took her lawnmower out of her garage and went to work on her front yard. Apparently the heat and humidity caused Desiree some discomfort, as she decided her task would be better completed sans shirt. She enjoyed the experience so much, she decided to make a habit of it. This aroused the ire of her puritanical neighbor, Mary Thompson, who felt it inappropriate that yard...
...lull between the completion of his novel, which he was still tinkering with in late summer, and all the publication hubbub to follow, Wolfe finds himself with the unaccustomed luxury of free time on his hands. He has filled some of it by accompanying his son Tommy, an accomplished squash player, to tournaments along the East Coast. "I used to play with him," Wolfe says of the son who is 55 years younger, "until I noticed him setting up shots for me. In aging athletes, the legs go first...
Forget, for a moment, the hubbub about human cloning. French surgeons on Wednesday wrote another page of science fiction into the medical books by sewing a dead man's hand onto a living patient. A multinational team of doctors working in Lyon spent three and a half hours transplanting the hand and part of an arm from a brain-dead donor to a 48-year-old Austrialian businessman who lost his lower arm in a logging accident almost a decade ago. [Ed. Note: In a bizarre twist, it was later reported that the patient actually lost his limb using...
...while The Negotiator is just that, with a genuinely puzzling mystery built in (if Roman isn't the killer, who is?). But Hollywood doesn't trust talk, particularly in summer. So eventually the running around and explosions commence. As usual, the main things lost in the hubbub are wit and logic...
...people were very unhappy with this hubbub around Radcliffe's future without any hard factual evidence about what was going to happen to Radcliffe," Schmitt said...