Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enterprise could not be under rated as an imaginative appeal to the nation's conscience, but it was clearly headed for trouble. An air of bedlam hung over the encampment. There were too few shelters. Sewage lines were uncompleted. Only two shower units were available to the nearly 1,000 people on hand at week's end. But the camp site had its amenities too. There were power lines, portable latrines and phone booths. A big blue-topped tent was pitched to serve as a mess hall. Mobile clinics were scheduled to wheel up to dispense medical, dental...
...next set piece on the doctor's travels is the Desperation Bar-crammed with middle-class types of all ages and stages of neurosis and nihilism, drinking their way out of life. After that follows a bedlam of a sanitarium, where the doctors give Braun the morphine he begs for under the impression that he is planning to use it to commit suicide...
MANCHESTER, N.H., March 12--Euphoria turned to bedlam here tonight. Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) came before a cheering, jumping, screaming crowd of campaign workers at 11:15 p.m., and not one among them doubted that the Democratic nomination was now possible for their candidate...
HERSHEY made it known that adminstering either plan would mean "bedlam" for the Selective Service, although last week he denied reports that he had said he could not do it. Some observers believe that his comment alone caused the President to reject the plans, but it was only one of the deciding factors. Another was that age-mix would have exempted the 200.000 men currently classified I-A who are older than 19 but have never held a II-S. The percentage plan was rejected for three additional reasons...
...never said I couldn't do it," Hershey said, "although I did say it certainly would have been bedlam had we switched to any multiple age-group system...