Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These days Bright Hockey Center evokes images of maniacal, capacity crowds, flying squid and raucous chants from the Harvard Band. But last night when the Second Annual Harvard Athletic Department Ice Hockey and Beer Drinking Contest got underway, the stands were empty, and the ice remained free of debris...
After more than six hours of raucous debate, Begin got what he wanted. By a 63-to-21 vote, the Knesset agreed to extend "the law, jurisdiction and administration of the state" to the heights area, which has been treated for 14 years by Israel as occupied foreign territory under military rule. Israel's move fell short of outright annexation, but only in the narrowest legal sense...
...declared in a radio interview last month that he favored a "pause" in the pace of reform. Mitterrand disagreed. The President is anxious to placate important supporters within the governing coalition: the Communists, who hold four seats in the 44-member Cabinet, and a group of impatient, occasionally raucous Socialist backbenchers known as "maximalists" because they want a maximum number of campaign promises implemented...
There was no doubt among Solidarity's leaders that Walesa should attend the session. What was at issue was whether he should be authorized to negotiate alone on the behalf of the entire diverse union. "We want democracy, not a dictatorship!" yelled one commission member above the raucous uproar at the meeting. Shouted Radical Jan Rolicz, who is challenging Walesa's current efforts to hold back the organization he helped to found: "The time has come to think about a personnel change in the union, even though Walesa is still a symbol of unity." Jozef Dudek, another radical...
...separates the Stones from those who would polish rock and roll into a smooth, blunt weapon. The band members never saw themselves as a part of a British Invasion--not musically, at least. They wanted that "really good funky American sound," from the start, Richards announced in 1964. That raucous, reckless, eminently funky sound has endured as the Stones' special signature, regardless of what other influences are mixed...