Word: fermented
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William was crowned that Christmas morning. Had he merely conquered, England would still have been pulled from its semi-Scandinavian orbit and into the ferment of Western Europe, and English would still have been transformed into a different language, one with words that came by way of France, words like different and language...
...special privilege to lead the Board at this time of increased intellectual ferment at Harvard. New facilities in both the humanities and the sciences, substantially increased collaboration across schools and departments, and pervasive changes in technology are spurring the imaginations of our faculty and students as never before," she said...
...special privilege to lead the Board atthis time of increased intellectual ferment atHarvard. New facilities in both the humanities andthe sciences, substantially increasedcollaboration across schools and departments, andpervasive changes in technology are spurring theimaginations of our faculty and students as neverbefore," she said...
...divine decadence of Weimar Berlin! Brecht and Weill making acerbic music; Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau creating film metaphors for Germany in chaos; famous artists like Grosz and Ernst--and a failed painter named Hitler. It was all so exciting, also grim. But amid the ferment, a buoyant sound could be heard: the impish artistry of the Comedian Harmonists. From 1928 until it was banned and disbanded by the Nazis in 1934, this male sextet brought smiles to Berliners in the political and economic dumps. One could almost believe the sentiment behind its hit tune Wochenend und Sonnenschein: Happy days...
Indeed, last week was full of flying ferment. At American Airlines, pilots and management resumed their long-running hatefest, with the former staging a sick-out that stranded hundreds of thousands of passengers. In Washington, complaints about airline service--crowding, high prices, late flights--are stacking up so fast that Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon and Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona introduced legislation for a passenger bill of rights...