Word: bedlamic
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...spectators at Northwestern's McGaw Hall sat in stunned silence for several seconds. Then-bedlam. Starnes's delirious teammates hoisted him onto their shoulders, paraded him to the locker room. "It's like getting beat by a wild pitch," groaned Northwestern's anguished Coach Bill Rohr. "I was standing directly in line with the flight of the ball-and, believe it or not, that shot actually curved into the basket...
...experiment of great fascination to political scientists, because it has never been tried before," Hoffmann said. He pointed out that if both the president and the parliament "constantly use the power at their disposal, it will be sheer bedlam...
...occasion for this beery bedlam was the end of the 18th America's Cup competition. Once more, as it has for 111 years, the battered silver trophy remained securely in the U.S. Going into the week with a 3-to-1 edge, the U.S.'s brilliant Bus Mosbacher swiftly closed out the best 4-of-7 series. In the kind of breezy (10 to 17 knots) but not blowy day that Weatherly likes best, he beat Gretel's Jock Sturrock to the start, soon had a healthy lead and increased it with every mark...
...Sebring's establishment, which has doubled in size since he first set up shop in 1959 (last year he grossed about $50,000, expects to do $100,000 this year), is a ten-chair, swinging bedlam, with a hi-fi dishing out a diet of progressive jazz and the recorded works of Frankie and other customers. It has a red and black floor, Indian brass hanging lamps, paneled partitions and-in Sebring's private cell-velvet drapes. A visit begins with a mandatory shampoo (Sebring, like most of the "new wave" of barbers, prefers to work on damp...
Five minutes of organized bedlam, however, was not enough to win an election; McCormack had the student support but he lacked Convention votes. Kennedy lost the first district polled (Berkshire) but then began to pull rapidly ahead...