Word: uproarous
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...Kent Repologle could have had no reasonable right to demote her to a reporter. If KMBC had been languishing in its old position. Repologle could have asked Craft to follow a certain fashion he thought would make her more appealing and therefore boost ratings. No one raised any uproar when CBS told Dan Rather to don a casual sweater for the same purpose...
...nevezhda, which means "an ignorant person." Krokodilovy slyozy, which translates literally as "tears of the crocodile," derives from a Russian fable similar to the Western tale. Hullabaloo, which harks back at least to the 18th century English wolf-hunting cry of "halloo-baloo," appeared as shumikha, which means "uproar." Hooligan is simply khuligan in Russian, with precisely the same meaning in English...
...civil aircraft. . . then why were there not taken any steps from the American side to end the gross violation of the airspace of the U.S.S.R.?" TASS said that 'leading circles" in the Soviet Union express "regret" over the loss of life, but the news agency dismissed the worldwide uproar over the attack as mere "hullabaloo...
...Presidency/Hugh Sidey "A great disruptive fact was the baneful influence of elections almost continuously in progress, of campaigns never over, and of political uproar endlessly arousing emotions . . . It raised to ever higher pitch the passion-rousing oratory of rivals. They egged one another on to make more and more exaggerated statements...
...good deal of the blame for today's exaggerated political uproar belongs to television, which turns politics into programmed entertainment. The more extreme the event, the more TV air time it tends to get. James David Barber of Duke University believes that the networks will have more to say about who the presidential candidates will be next year than the political parties; hence all the witless clamor...