Word: pandemoniums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he hove into view-a gallant, smiling, if somewhat aging figure, sitting his white, 16-year-old steed, Topper, with the assurance born of a hundred B westerns-pandemonium was certain to reign. The screams, the whistles, the volleys of exploding caps which racket up whenever he rides through the ranks of his wriggling idolaters would probably outdo anything ever heard during the games of ancient Rome...
...specific promise. Cried 38-year-old Harmar Nicholls, M.P. for Peterborough: "Our message should be this: that from existing stocks and available labor we should guarantee to give housing first call up to 300,000 houses a year." When the committee tried to sidetrack the figure 300,000, pandemonium broke loose, hundreds of voices chanted, "We want...