Word: riotousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...viewed on the nation's TV screens, the reporters' clamor for presidential recognition sometimes seems riotous. Some of the newsmen are plainly overcome by the possibilities for personal publicity in the televised conference. Says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's sobersided Raymond...
...second act these two put on a marvelous song and dance called the "Planned Obsolescence Mambo." Rawle also has two excellent duets with John TenBrook, as Tuesday Kowalczyk (a muscular lady cop). Doyle has a way of exclaiming "That's fascinating!" that can bring almost any scene to a riotous close...
...superseded by "a spry wee gent" (as Jock ripsnortingly describes him) "wi' tabs in place o' tits." The new colonel (John Mills) is in fact a rather glum plate of porridge, but he is just what the battalion needs on the morning after old Jock's riotous regime. He tightens up training procedures, clears out the administrative mess...
...proud detail, the Journalist, house organ of the Japan Congress of Journalists (1,700 members), told exactly how pro-Communist Japanese newsmen had helped whip Japanese emotions to riotous frenzy. "Japanese journalists who participated in the great struggle," said the Journalist, "worked through such organizations as labor unions of the press, radio and TV, holding numerous protest shop rallies, advocating petitioning of the Diet or participating directly in the demonstrations...
While the world's statesmen hotly debated its fate in the U.N., the Congo sprawled in the equator's heat, torpid and listless. The riotous chaos and killing had mostly stopped. In its place was a vapid, restless calm...