Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dozen former officials on a variety of charges. He has called for a spiritual and moral transformation, promising "absolute respect for human rights." He has urged all priests who fled into exile during the previous regime to return without fear of reprisal, and permitted university students to hold a raucous and frequently outrageous annual protest parade that had been banned by his predecessor...
...charged "subversive admiration for Hitler"). The controversy grew last month when Playwright Christopher Hampton presented a stage version now playing at London's Mermaid theater, that Steiner thought was "too faithful" to his book. That fidelity made the aging Hitler, played by Alec McCowen, a rigid, then suddenly raucous figure, declaiming a justification of his past. "It is a tour de force ... to freeze the blood," said the Daily Mail. "A dramatic fraud," claimed the Financial Times. U.S. publication of the novel, which is due on April 30, the anniversary of Hitler's suicide, is certain to prolong...
...Harvard Classics basketball team hopes to win its next away games it had better get used to raucous cheers like that from the home team's partisans. The hollers which will seem nonsensical to the hoopsters from Harvard will ring quite coherently in any Danish arena...
...home of NBC Correspondent Richard Valeriani, 49, ABC's David Brinkley, 61, who ended a 37-year NBC career last September in a dispute with the abrasive Small, regaled the guests with a mock press release about the ousting of the executive. Describing the bitter and raucous incidents as "excessive," Small's embarrassed successor, Reuven Frank, 61, said last week: "It was as though somebody had uncorked something...
...unusually young team, with only three seniors--seemed to have the jump on the Huskies in the early going. Egged on by a large and raucous delegation from Durham, N.H., the Wildcats out skated and passed better than the more physical Huskies. UNH's high-scoring line of Don Forget, Andy Brickley and ECAC Rookie-of-the-Year Norm Lacombe started the scoring 6:12 into the game, when Forget and Brickley set up defenseman Ed Olsen for a slap shot goal...