Word: bedlams
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...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...
...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...