Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardly had the convoy left the Premier's office, a few blocks from the U.S. embassy on Thong Nhut Boulevard, when bedlam broke out. A man wearing a Vietnamese Ranger uniform and carrying a pistol rushed up and opened fire on a traffic cop who was clearing the way for the convoy. A cyclo, one of Saigon's three-wheeled open taxis, suddenly materialized in the middle of the street. Two of the police Jeeps pulled up alongside the Premier's limousine as wild firing broke out; the convoy sped around the cyclo and away from...
...Boche Baroque" fortress-prison of Siegmaringen. The time is late in the war. France has already been liberated by the Allies. At Siegmaringen, French collaborators (including Celine) are huddled together, fearful of R.A.F. bombs, of their German masters and, most of all, of one another. In this bedlam, swarming with bizarre characters, are real personages from history like Pierre Laval and Marshal Petain, as well as the Communist poet Louis Aragon and Otto Abetz, Hitlers ex-Gauleiter in Paris. "A pack of the most rapacious wolves in Europe" Céline calls them, all betrayers of someone outside, all frenetically...
Scared of Daddy. Kramer taped a diary last season, and Instant Replay is more or less the result. He shows that all was not beating and moaning in Lombardi's bedlam. "Tomorrow, I imagine, Coach Lombardi'll pat him on the head, rub his back, scratch his ears, and everybody'll feel a little better," he writes of one player. At other times, Coach leads his bulls in song. All very sincere, all very calculated. What makes the diary interesting is that the author knows exactly what is being done to him, chooses it, and even...
...Vinci. To relieve the congestion and bring order to the bedlam of 16th century Milan, he told its Duke, the community would have to be broken down into ten cities of 30,000 people each...
...Bedlam. In the over-the-counter market, which operates by telephone, the pace grew frantic enough to overstrain physical facilities and disrupt trading. "It's absolute bedlam," said one dealer whose entire switchboard lit up at once. "We just pulled all the cords out and started fresh." Other brokers encountered long delays reaching marketmakers. Such tie-ups often hurt investors, as prices rise before their orders can be placed. Goodbody & Co. stopped giving quotations and White, Weld & Co. halted its over-the-counter operations an hour before the new and foreshortened 3:30 p.m. official closing time. Despite...