Word: raucously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stadium, Russin turned into the gate marked "press and photographers only," and I went to follow. Wishful thinking. Susan grabbed my arm. "This gate, dear," she said cheerily. Under the stands we ran into one of her friends, similarly bundled up. They exchanged raucous greetings. Her friend's date stared dumbly at the two of them and took another bite of his hot dog. We exchanged shrugs, unsmilingly...
Foreign languages begin without books, and English is banned from the classroom. For nine hours a week, 14-year-olds answer one question after another in high-speed French or Spanish. In senior English, the visitor who hated college Chaucer is delighted to hear raucous laughter as Dudley Fitts translates the "pleyn speken" Prologue. In the science honors (physics-chemistry) course of Edmond G. Hammond Jr., a brilliant young teacher with icy blue eyes, he listens raptly to sneers at "routine thought" and generalizations that are "pretty messy...
...program is a ripsnorting public feud between Gibbs and the Piel brothers. Sound trucks, skywriters and posters will plaster New York with the cabalistic exhortation "B. B. B. & H." (for "Bring Back Bert and Harry"). Next month Gibbs will take on the brothers in three radio debates. Predictably raucous, Bert Piel will charge: "That pantywaist Gibbs doesn't even like beer. If you put an olive in it, he might drink...
...Harold Macmillan, there could be no question of switching off the hearing aid. The Commonwealth's sustained offensive significantly swelled anti-Europe sentiment in Britain at a time when Macmillan's government is already dangerously weak. The raucous debate strengthened the hand of the 4O-odd right-wing Tory rebels who would like nothing better than to retreat from Europe. And, after a year of cagey fence straddling, Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell vaulted into the debate to decry the Common Market's terms of admission as "too damaging to be acceptable." The Labor Party, he hinted...
...California's six-level center at Berkeley is a $6.7 million crazy quilt that wags call "Jack Tar East" after a garish San Francisco hotel; it will soon become a four-building center housing 150 student clubs, a 2,000-seat auditorium, a hushed "meditation room" and a raucous snack bar inevitably called "Bear's Lair." New York University's ten-story, $5,000,000 center offers diners a view of Washington Square; Tulane's $3,000,000 "living room" has an Olympic-sized swimming pool with poolside snack service...