Word: tumultous
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...tumult of soaring prices and unpredictable supplies has played havoc with the economy for years. Since 1973 there have been two recessions, and as energy prices have soared they have helped propel inflation to one of the highest sustained levels in the nation's peacetime history. The U.S. now stares at the possibility of perhaps a decade of 10% or higher annual inflation. The lives of Americans, from the clothes they wear to the cars they drive, have been profoundly altered...
...will not rejoice that the hour of hoarse spellbinders has at length passed? Wholesale tilting against windmills is over. Campaign literature can now light the first winter fires; and the much-shouted-at burgher can return to straphanging and the comics. Best of all, the tumult has availed but little. Forty-five per cent of the voters will vote as their grandfathers did, 45 per cent will vote as their husbands dictate, and the other misled 10 per cent will vote intelligently. Yet it is those few who will make of today another interesting episode in the drama of American...
...elections were held in the open on the Common. One such electoral contest featured Winthrop and an opponent named Vane, squaring off for the title of chief magistrate. "The adherents," a chronicler reports, "gathered in force and excitement ran high so violence was feared. At the height of the tumult, the Rev. John Wilson, pastor of the Boston Church, despite his 49 years and large bulk, climbed into the old oak and from his point of vantage addressed the people to such good purpose that quiet was restored and the election proceeded." Winthrop won, but he and his followers returned...
...would have thought that this prism of bliss is a mere pause amid tumult, a respite in a plot-clogged saga of murder and revenge, which features, among a good many other things, poison asps, opium, the collapse into rubble of an entire Indian temple? With Natalia Makarova's direction, the American Ballet Theater has produced the full-length La Bayadére, at a cost of about $500,000. American balletgoers are not used to such a florid, densely populated drama. To appreciate it, one must be prepared for a very full, surprising experience. The evening...
...national solidarity to protest what President Abolhassan Banisadr called the "conspiracies of the U.S. and Iraq's fascist government." At Tehran University, a crowd roared its approval of anti-American resolutions while chanting "God is great!" -raising fresh fears for the hostages trapped in the middle of the tumult. In Washington, where supporters of the hostages held candlelight vigils near the Iranian embassy, dozens of Iranian students demonstrated in front of the White House and bowed toward Mecca...