Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Supporting the idea that spirit is tied to competitiveness is Harvard's hockey team, the University's only championship team in a big-time sport. Every game played at Bright draws a large and raucous crowd. Those who desire a seat in the student section behind the far goal had better get their ticket early...
...monumental that (like last year's Sunday show) the band closed the set with it undoubtedly out of a need to take a break before playing anything else. After giving the audience a minute or two to collect their jaws from the floor, the band returned and delivered a raucous "Johnny B.Goode," giving a perfect end to a great show...
Several distinguished jurists held a raucous, inconclusive discussion of aspects of the case in front of a crowd of mostly first-year law students in Sanders Theatre. The event, titled "O.J. Simpson: Free Press, Fair Trial. A Class in Cyber-Law," drew panelists from a variety of legal backgrounds, from judge to prosecutors and defense attorneys...
...liberals, that would be Armageddon. For conservatives, a Romney victory would warrant the kind of raucous celebration that marked the fall of the Berlin Wall...
More and more, however, in rock -- and also in rap and R. and B. -- men and women are forming bands in which the latter not only sing but play instruments and write songs too. Some tough all-female bands have formed that give a womanist twist to the raucous sound usually associated with all-buddy bands, but the more remarkable and successful phenomenon has been bands with men and women playing together. Very fine albums by the Cranberries and Smashing Pumpkins have sold more than a million copies each. Coed bands are also on the cutting edge...