Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Klondike's" temperature rose to more than 150° F. in the "treatment cells, bedlam raged. Tearing their clothes off, gasping for breath, the tortured men roared and screamed for hours. When guards came with breakfast the third day, they found 21 of the prisoners unconscious, four (two in each of two cells) dead on the floor-bruised, gouged, discolored, parboiled...
...authorize Secretary Hoover to make individual wave length assignments, that stations were free to pick their own wave lengths, to wander at will through the frequencies. More than 200 stations jumped into the air in less than a year, mingled their random signals with the howls of heterodynes, raised bedlam that once more provoked a storm of pained and angry protest from listeners...
With violinists warming up on "In the Still of the Night," members of the Radcliffe Dance Group practicing in the corners, and a gallery of Bellboys scrambling for seats, the Lowell House Common Room is a bedlam a few minutes before eight these evenings. But when Courtland Canby '37, 1G lays aside his pipe, sheds his coat, and raps for attention the fifty-odd people assembled there get down to the business of rehearsing for Purcell's opera, "Dido and Aeneas...
...machine gunners in some cases kept dueling at each other from behind splintered walls only a few yards apart. Chinese bombing raiders came over at 6 p.m., 6:07, 6:30, and 6:50. Japanese warships in the river, Japanese land batteries and Chinese artillery-all opened up in bedlam, streaking the evening sky with tracer bullets. Japanese aircraft, zooming up from a field the Chinese were bombing, got busy in mad efforts to save themselves and retaliate with as much damage to Chinese as possible, proceeded to fly over the neutral foreigners in the International Settlement with full cargoes...
...years now, the Freshman Class has occupied the Yard and has done it well. Noise and confusion have molested the precincts of the Yard at times to be sure, but the promised bedlam fortunately failed to materialize...