Word: raucous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...score was 3-2 for Winthrop House and the clincher came with less than a minute left. Steve Mullin scooped up a loose puck to the left off the crease and fired it through a crowd sending the Winthrop squad into raucous celebration...
...There's going to be a battle royal," predicted one Republican official nine weeks ago when Mary Louise Smith quit as the G.O.P.'s national chairman. A wise forecast: the Republicans promptly began a raucous free-for-all-in the best brawling style of the Democrats-to decide who should get the job. Last week 161 members of the National Committee finally convened in Washington's Hilton Hotel and, after three ballots, settled on a compromise candidate: former U.S. Senator William Brock III of Tennessee...
...raucous rant of wretched lady's wrath...
...attempt to cut back on Britain's social services will meet raucous opposition from left-wing Laborites in Parliament. But the leftists are not likely to gain enough support among opposing Liberals and Tories to have the spending cuts rejected. Britain does not have much choice. The pound has been in sharp decline through most of the year, dropping from $2.03 in January to $1.66 last week. Moreover, foreign debts are falling due. For example, about $1.6 billion must be paid this month on an earlier loan from the Group of Ten (industrial nations). Britain's creditors, including...
...balloon or sinking with his ship, no one has ever kicked the bucket for so many laughs. A fickle Joan Greenwood finally lands the mass assassin in jail for the one murder he never committed. Bouncing back in his jail cell, though, he chipperly narrates us the story of raucous D'Ascoyne murders. After all, who could regret even betrayal to the tune of Greenwood's inimitable voice...