Word: uproarous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Uproar over Incest...
...aborted American mission to rescue the hostages in Iran did more than precipitate an international uproar and an air of crisis in Washington. It may have also kept six "Doonesbury" strips from ever seeing the light of newsprint...
What touched off the immediate uproar was the Carter Administration's open dismay over what it regards as the lack of backing by the allies for Washington's responses to the twin crises of the American hostages in Iran and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In the long run, the Afghan crisis is almost certain to be the more difficult for the allies to confront with a common policy. While the U.S. will continue pushing for relatively tough countermoves, its partners will hesitate, feeling that the issue is peripheral to their own security. What is more, the allies doubt that...
Questions proliferated at such a rate that by 1890 some people had to reply to as many as 470 queries. Were ther any "idiots" in the family? If so, were their heads larger or smaller than average? Wisdom prevailed and those obnoxious questions were dropped in 1900. The biggest uproar came in 1940 when the census asked about income for the first time...
...created an uproar among the millions of Americans-particularly diabetics and the obese-who use the sweetener. Rats are not people, they said, and anyway the risk seemed small. Congress responded by putting off the ban for 18 months, then delayed it again while consumers, only slightly concerned, continued their saccharin binge. Last week they heard some sweet news. Two new studies gave saccharin a nearly clean bill of health and probably ensured that the FDA ban would never take effect...