Word: pandemoniums
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...noon, Thursday, pandemonium prevailed on the campus. An angry crowd jammed the plaza, filled the steps of Sproul Hall and was pressing towards the barricaded doors, and I'm certain that we were 30 seconds short of a riot. The sight of the armed cops was infuriating the students, many of whom nearly hysterical. The tension was indescribable, and all that was needed was a single provocation...
Lyndon Baines Johnson stared out triumphantly over the largest crowd ever assembled in Portland, Maine, as it roared its welcome. After a few minutes listening to the pandemonium, he looked down quizzically and shouted, "Now do you want me to listen to you or do you want to listen to me?" The answer was prompt and obvious, and the enraptured audience swallowed his every word...
...surely at no loss for money. "I should not like to be poor again," he said recently, "and I have taken all the precautions to see that I shan't be." As he cruised in his yacht on the sunny Black Sea off Bulgaria last week while pandemonium hit the London Exchange, John Bloom must have reflected on the wisdom of those precautions...
...Herschel Bernardi, I must interject, looks and sounds about as Italian as Menasha Skulnick), Steve proposes. To everyone's amazement except ours, Natalie rejects him. A wedding without love would be intolerable. Footloose Steve, feeling his duty discharged, ducks out the back door leaving Natalie's relatives in anguished pandemonium. You never heard so many Mama Mias...
...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...