Word: bedlams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inside their makeshift blinds and pulled gunny sacks over their heads. Like hunters elsewhere, they were equipped with plenty of shells (No. 6 shot for ducks plus a few No. 2 in case geese came in low); some of them used kazoolike duck calls on which they quacked a bedlam of food calls. Mostly it did little good: the ducks sat on the open water far from the shore line, safely out of shotgun range...
Construction of an elaborate system of traffic islands and blinker lights began yesterday in Harvard Square and promises to create bedlam for the next two weeks. the new lights and islands will implement the city's plan to turn the Square into a rotary traffic circle, a plan that is now being given a 30-day experimental trial. Success of the whole plan hinges on the ability of large trucks and trackless trolleys coming into the square from the Central square end of Mass. Avenue to negotiate the sharp turn around the subway kiosk...
...porch, getting minute-by-minute reports from the packed meeting room. Just before Irving rose to read his financial report (it would have shown, Irving explained later, that the local's net worth was a handsome $204,000), Baldwin's boys rushed upstairs. In the stifling room, bedlam broke loose. Men seized chairs, smashed them over the heads of their opponents. Knives flashed. One member leaped to protect Irving, was deeply slashed for his pains. Before the police arrived, 25 men had been cut. "We'll get you at the next meeting," yelled one man as Irving...
Right Role. In the genteel bedlam of Manhattan's Cafe Society (six nights a week, after the curtain rings down on South Pacific), she was making her own solo hit. Slick-haired, flat-faced Juanita just hauled off from the microphone, braced her 61 inches and 165 pounds, and let the customers have it in a full, strong voice that ranged easily from deep purple to high yellow. She moaned Am I Blue and her own Lament over Love, and usually she gave them Bali Ha'i and Happy Talk, her South Pacific hits. Offstage, she had nothing...
Last year they saw Harvard sweep the river in the midst of whistles, hoots, Yachts, straw hats, long-legged and suntanned girls, seersuckered guys, and general bedlam. It was a joyous occasion but not unexpected. Tom Bolles has never lost a varsity race to Yale...