Word: bedlam
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Even the argumentative European temperament remains. Brinton hypothesizes that disputatious people will not succumb to Communism, and indeed Europeans maintain a stubborn diversity whether discussing compulsory Latin in the schools or policy in Korea. The conflicts in the multifactional French government often sound like bedlam, but according to Brinton this is not a pathological condition. In countries with a two-party system, compromises come from conventions, caucuses and executive chambers; in France the disputes go to the National Assembly, but in all democracies there must be dissension somewhere. The French have managed with similar systems for 164 nearly unbroken years...
...left-wing demands for restoration of food subsidies, cuts in purchase taxes and a campaign for unrestricted wage rises bounced off the walls. Out of the din came the roar of bulky T.U.C. Vice Chairman Arthur Deakin. "What you're demanding, brothers," he cried, "is the economics of bedlam." Again the dissidents were voted down. The left-wing Amalgamated Engineering Union proposed a united campaign "for the early defeat and removal of the Tory government"-surely a natural undertaking for the body that gave birth to the Labor Party and represented the core of its voting strength...
...medical disciplines-and one of the most complex -to the healing of ailing humanity. Equally important, it carries on psychiatric research and a comprehensive teaching program. Interestingly enough, the clinic perpetuates an old tradition, for New York Hospital, the city's first, pioneered 150 years ago in replacing Bedlam's chains and floggings with kindly "moral management" of the mentally...
Every Sunday evening at 9 p.m., faithful Business School freshmen troupe to Morris Hall, C Entry, to slip six-page papers in EA General through a ten by one-half inch slot. But last night bedlam broke loose: the papers had been assigned for eight pages...
...maneuver that did not escape Smith's stethoscope. The clocks moved into the room directly above. Once during a three-day absence Smith left his radio blaring away and the police were called in. Smith said it was an oversight. For another two years the battle of bedlam went on. Other neighbors began to complain. One threatened to beat up Smith. After plaster-shivering crashes began causing their small daughter to have vomiting fits, the Masons decided to sue for damages...