Word: pandemonium
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...destroying whatever faith in the greenback is left among the people who hold the $70 billion that U.S. balance of payments deficits have spilled out abroad. Government controls on capital movements limit international economic freedom, and have not worked anyway. And something must be done to stop the dollar pandemonium...
...Terrapins trot onto the court, the 20-piece pep band belts out the Maryland fight song. Cheerleaders somersault into the air. Pompon girls wiggle and wave. Then suddenly an expectant hush falls over the crowd as the public-address announcer booms, "And now . . . heeerrre's Lefty!" Pandemonium again breaks loose, the band strikes up Hail to the Chief and out shuffles Charles Grice ("Lefty") Driesell, the loose, lanky (6ft. 4-in.) Maryland basketball coach. He is wearing a $250 double-knit suit and the "aw-shucks" grin of a plowboy at a tea dance, and when he casually flashes...
...hospital orderlies, the gunmen grabbed a nun and, using her as a shield, advanced down the hallway toward MacStiofáin's room. There, as two of the gunmen dropped to their knees and threatened to kill the hospital attendants present, detectives closed in shooting. In the pandemonium, two I.R.A. men were wounded and four others were caught later, but the clumsy rescue attempt had been too close for comfort. The following day, MacStiofáin was bundled off by helicopter to the Curragh, the Irish army's main barracks 30 miles outside Dublin...
...Pandemonium broke loose as it seemed that Lynch's great effort had amazingly won the game for Harvard. But then on the ensuing kickoff, B.C. was given good field position on the Yardling 45-yard line...
...television dial. "Illinois will put us over," said Yancey Martin, McGovern's black director of minorities. It was a small irony that McGovern soared over his required 1,509 with the Illinois delegation that he had rather reluctantly claimed from Richard Daley. In the hall, a brief, almost polite pandemonium broke out and then subsided. McGovern smiled in his hotel room, shook hands with his staff and kissed his relatives, murmuring "Thank