Word: raucously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dust floated thickly in the air of the canvas tent that was Dr. Dass's operating theater in Darbhanga last week. Amid a raucous babble of several hundred patients, squatting on their haunches to await their turns at one of the makeshift operating tables, sweating coolies carried off postoperative patients at the rate of one a minute. As each new patient was placed on the table, an assistant washed the clouded eye with a mercury solution and applied a few drops of anesthetic. Then, while another assistant held a flashlight, the surgeon slipped his knife into the patient...
...distress of oldtimers in sedate and leafy Princeton, N.J., the university has been busy with basic research in such noisy things as rockets and ramjet engines for military aircraft. This week, with the U.S. defense effort in mind, Princeton proudly announced that it was plunging even deeper into the raucous physical sciences...
Vanderbilt has a few double rooms, but most of the men live in singles. Parietal rules are not strenuous (1 a.m. permissions on weekends) and parties become almost as raucous as College ones. In fact, there is far more of a collegiate spirit and air about Vanderbilt than would be expected of a home of sober young medical...
...house, is always alive with birds, some to paint and others that have been hurt and need fixing. Among his guests last week were three Canada geese, a very angry golden eagle named Sergeant, an albino cardinal, a mourning dove, two red-winged blackbirds and a raucous blue jay with a broken wing. Menaboni makes pets of many birds; ducklings have swum in his bathtub, bobwhites have made themselves at home in his living room and a screech owl has perched on his easel...
Blandings' Way, by Eric Hodgins. The raucous and faintly sad story of what happened to Mr. Blandings when he moved into his dream house and became a citizen of suburbia (TIME...