Word: raucous
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...this was Athens, not Baghdad, and it was the first overt signal that these next two weeks may really be about sport, not war. The raucous scene on Omonia Square in downtown Athens turned out to be simply a bunch of Iraqi soccer fans celebrating the surprise victory of their team in a preliminary round of the Olympic Games. They chanted for a while, joyous smiles disarming any who felt threatened, and after a few minutes, peacefully rambled off down a side street...
...bottom of the slope, a path worn by unseen animals leads to a perfectly circular stand of trees sucking water out of the salty white gypsum. There are wattles, paperbark and bloodwood eucalypts; among them pink Major Mitchell cockatoos shatter the oppressive silence with their raucous screams as they feed. Fairy wrens dart between flowering shrubs, and from the knee-high sedges and grasses comes the whisper of tiny life...
...Washington Square's genesis dates back to the 1980s, when its collection of raucous bars, women and cheap accommodation drew hordes of U.S. expatriates and adventurers, including many former servicemen who had chosen never to return home. Some began living in the square, and a handful still do, making this one of the last refuges of the hard-bitten American in Asia, looking to get drunk in peace...
...yesterday’s Baccalaureate Service, University President Lawrence H. Summers imparted good will and advice to the Class of 2004, eliciting raucous laughter from the crowd of future graduates...
...partial to a drop of tea but fed up with the raucous atmosphere and chain-smoking laobaixing (the colloquial Chinese expression for the man in the street) that cram Shanghai's regular cafés, then check out the sedate and sequestered atmosphere of the Guyuan Antique Teahouse, tel: (86-21) 6445 4625. Inspired by Ming-dynasty architecture, the city's finest tea parlor is a classy joint where executives come to impress clients and contacts with China's most exclusive brews. Its imposing wooden gateway (200 years old and transported to Shanghai from culturally rich Shanxi province...