Word: pandemonium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to spend the money, and is treaty-bound to buy all the wine that independent Algeria can produce. Angered, the French farmers have sabotaged phone and power lines, blocked railway signals, barricaded the highways. When the new wine starts coming in, Southern France is likely to be in pandemonium...
...suppose when President Kennedy can speak at Lowell House at Harvard without the awed pandemonium that today would accompany such an occurrence, then perhaps the world will have achieved what you suggest...
...scenes of pandemonium reminiscent of 1929, the grey, fortresslike New York Stock Exchange shuddered and shook. Glamour stocks such as Brunswick Corp., Fairchild Camera and Xerox, which had been selling on the strength of capital-gains potential rather than current dividends, crashed to half or even a quarter of their 1961 highs. Mighty IBM, which had become more of a cult than a stock, plummeted from 578½ in January to a low of 300 in June. Dropping like a shot goose, the market lost $23 billion in paper values during a single hectic week in late May, and $21 billion...
...business, as the $12 billion-a-year garment industry dubs itself, is stretching out. In the lofts above the pushcart pandemonium of Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, Italian seamstresses have given way to Negroes and Puerto Ricans, and in carpeted executive suites, the district's predominantly Jewish chiefs proudly point out that more and more young gentiles are coming in as junior executives. The most significant change, however, is that giants are beginning to appear in an industry where the average firm has 40 employees. Biggest of them all is Jonathan Logan, Inc., whose sales, running 34% ahead...
...scenes (especially the single combat of the Cid and another king's champion) have all the subtle tints and shadings of a medieval triptych. Moreover, the composition of even the battle scenes was obviously planned, so that they are much more impressive than the usual sand-box pandemonium of the run-of-the-mill spectacular...