Word: pandemonium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frankly admitted by the students and the dean's office, and is hallowed by age-old traditions like freshman dinks. It is memorialized each year by a "cane spree," which starts as a series of wrestling contests between freshmen and sophomores, and traditionally degenerates into free-for-all pandemonium...
...room walkup apartment of Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Cohen of The Bronx, Mrs. Cohen, a 42-year-old grandmother, lifted the receiver. Carefully she answered the three questions put to her by the man at the other end of the line. At that point, Mrs. Cohen walked into pandemonium. She had hit the $28,000 jackpot on CBS's Sing It Again giveaway program...
...most of the week the House was in a minor pandemonium, with members milling around, gliding in & out of doors, haranguing one another, jostling down the aisle to have their noses counted. In the midst of what looked like a county fair, Administration forces were making good at last on a major Truman campaign promise: federal help in building homes for the country's ill-housed...
...trailing 7-1, he hit another homer with two men on, to put his team back in the game. Three innings later he homered again, to win it. After the game, Joe Dugan, an old Yankee third baseman who used to play with Ruth and Gehrig, rushed into the pandemonium in the Yankee dressing room and planted a kiss on DiMaggio's forehead. "Just had to do it," Dugan explained, "I've never seen anybody who could surpass this guy." On the third day, Joe whomped homer No. 4 to confound the Red Sox and sweep the series...
...pandemonium was saved for the old masters. Trumpeter Oran "Hot Lips" Page's "émotion authentique" blues soon had them breaking their hands for joy. Grizzled Sidney Bechet, who has been nozzling out New Orleans classics on clarinet and soprano sax since 1911, got a Toscanini's wild and respectful ovation, And when Yardbird Parker cut loose, puffing his tenor sax like a big cigar, the zazous drooled, twitched and finally screamed...