Word: bedlamic
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...when Gander was expanded to serve as a bomber ferry base. Grounded travelers, hung up in Gander for periods varying from an hour or two for refueling to several days for bad weather, have little choice but to haunt the airport's brawling, barnlike waiting room in a bedlam of children's cries and squawking announcements by 20-odd airlines. Grand Falls (pop. 16,059), the nearest town of any size, is three hours away by slow train. Three-day-old newspapers, and long, morose drinks of potent Newfoundland "screech" (rum) at the crowded bar* are the chief...
There was plenty to sample in the resulting hi-fi bedlam-speakers that looked like kettledrums or corner cupboards, tape recorders the size of a wallet or a washing machine, amplifiers that cost from $40 to $400, complete hookups from $150 (Spartan economy) to $3,500 (Sybaritic luxury). But as the fair went on, most of the excitement centered around something called "binaural" (or "stereophonic") sound. Aim of binaural sound: to give the ears the same effect of realistic "presence" that Cinerama films-or the old-fashioned stereoscope-give the eyes...
...came and called up to my room . . . The late Frank Simonds [the future historian and war correspondent] . . . heard the call, and just for a joke stuck his head out of his window and repeated the call. The cry was taken up ... Within a few minutes the Yard was a bedlam...
Since then, the Yard has often been a bedlam. Studious John Rinehart himself graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1903, went into practice in Manhattan, finally retired to his home in Waynesburg, Pa. There he lived a life of quiet respectability, buying and selling farmlands, and there last week, at 77, he died. To the end, old John Rinehart, whose name started so many riots in Harvard Yard, never touched a drop...
...Almost immediately," Rinehart said, "the Yard became a bedlam as the shouts rose into a chant, and the cry caught the fancy of the undergraduates who had been wearied by examinations and were wanting some way to relieve the precommencement tension." But John Rinehart spoke too late. He only added his version, which was officially recorded as truth in Samuel Eliot Morison's "Three Centuries of Harvard," to the original and more dramatic story...