Word: raucous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, boards and superintendents can scarcely avoid being at odds given the range of difficulties facing urban school systems today: squeezed budgets, falling student enrollments, rising teacher militancy, and in some areas still-smoldering race problems. Last week the Baltimore board fired Superintendent Roland Patterson after 12 days of raucous and acrimonious public hearings. The board charged Patterson, 47 and black, with "short changing" the city's schools (74% black) by lowering academic standards and failing to end school violence. In Chicago, Superintendent James F. Redmond announced that he would not accept reappointment to his $56,000-a-year...
Edwards has directed some smart Hollywood entertainments (the under rated Darling Lili, for example) and two of the three previous Clouseau excursions. This one is the most raucous of the lot, and possibly the best. It may not be as wild or inventive as Woody Allen or Mel Brooks or the Monty Python team. But The Return of the Pink Panther is fully as funny, in its own brassy, uncomplicated way, and that is probably what counts...
...formula for trouble. Streets for blocks around become littered with emblemed boxes, cups and bags; double-parking near the outlet causes traffic jams; transients drawn by inexpensive food disturb-and sometimes menace-local residents. Indeed, some Manhattan community groups charge that the fast-food joints attract not only raucous youths and loiterers but also pimps, prostitutes and drug addicts...
Belly Dancers. After the honeymoon, the marriage was filled with what one intimate of Ari's called "the nights of long silences." Jackie loved concerts, ballet and theater; Onassis preferred raucous bouzouki music, belly dancers and at times the company of roistering Greek businessmen. Much of the time they lived separate lives; Jackie had visited her husband, who had been in the hospital for five weeks, a few days earlier but was in New York City last week at the time of his death. When they were both in Manhattan, she resided with her children Caroline and John...
...first sounds of trouble came shortly before midnight when gunfire abruptly shattered the raucous gaiety of Tel Aviv's waterfront, a center of the city's night life. After killing a passing Israeli soldier who fired at them as they came up off the beach from their rubber dinghy, the commandos, loaded down with rucksacks and Kalashnikov rifles, ran down Samuel Esplanade, the main shore drive, firing at a movie theater and tossing grenades at a wedding hall. Passers-by fled in all directions, but few suspected an Arab attack. Said Gabi Edri, 17, a waiter...