Word: bedlam
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...work may be admirable, but is a stint of public service the just deserts of crime? Many people would say no, but they may not be the same ones who must contend with the bedlam of American prisons. In recent years, a get- tough trend toward longer sentences and more of them has had a predictable consequence. Even as crime rates generally declined during the first half of the 1980s, inmate numbers tracked wild ballistics of their own, increasing by nearly 60%. The nation's prison population now stands at a record 529,000, a total that grows...
...Feldman went back to Harvard on freshman registration day and filmed the bedlam in the extracurricular activities tent outside Memorial Hall. He also rounded up a group of students and a teaching assistant and staged a classroom discussion
...race, when the four favorite horses fell at the start, thereby enabling a 91-to-1 long shot named Commodore to romp home as the winner. At that, hundreds of losing bettors swarmed onto the track, trampling over fences and tearing down the display board. After 15 minutes of bedlam, it was announced that the third race was canceled and that all bets would be refunded...
What emerges is political bedlam and national boredom. But there are other more troubling results: not least the total exhaustion of the candidates, who must perform as political athletes, operating by glands, not by reason; and just as important-the inability of any schoolteacher to tell students approaching voting age how the nation chooses its leaders...
...Tigers win it! Here comes Kaline to score. And it's all over! Don Wert has singled. The tigers mob Don. The Fans are streaming onto the field, and the Tigers have won their first pennant since nineteen hundred and forty-five. Let's listen to the bedlam here in Tiger Stadium. Oh, what a moment!" -Radio broadcaster Ernie Harwell describing the Detroit Tigers' pennant-clinching moment, September...