Word: pandemonium
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...have tended in the past, in trying to lay down principles to parents, to tell them that a child should or should not get freedom. So many controversial theories have gotten parents into a state of pandemonium. . . . You know the kind of bunk that's been handed out time and again...
...Pandemonium broke loose below decks after the shutoff. Men fought like beasts to get out of the hold. Three times Oiler Antonio Georgia started up the narrow stairs and three times his legs were caught and he was dragged down...
...Ladies, Gentlemen, Undergraduates: It is with mixed feelings that we, the Ivy Orator, observe this scene of pandemonium, this shambles. Four years of college life, four years of bitter strife, four years of halcyon existence have sapped our resistance. As our President has so aptly said in his recent Baccalaureate address, anything worth doing well is worth trying or at least putting off until tomorrow, since it gathers no moss in the good old summer time.' Gentlemen, your future lies behind me, and before you I see my past--my present past, which in no sense your future past...
Forty minutes were devoted to the loudest and most frenzied cheering the Dictator has ever received in the Chamber. When the Corporative State law was proposed, the whole Chamber leaped up to adopt it by acclaim. Il Duce stilled the pandemonium, insisted on a vote, cast the first ballot himself. The count, presumably unanimous, was not mentioned in dispatches...
...Amid pandemonium the whole Tabasco delegation and a large section of the Convention leaped to their feet shouting "DOWN WITH GOD!" When quiet was restored the Convention voted that Article II of the Mexican Constitution, which already forbids religious instruction shall be extended to compel "Socialist instruction" in schools. As one delegate put it: "Someone has said that God has strong arms to guide the destinies of Mexico but we know that our farmers and laborer have still stronger arms and will shape their own destiny...