Word: tumult
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...giant Victory Parade suspiciously repeated the slogan of the day: "The Only National Debt We Can Never Pay Is the Debt We Owe to the Victorious Union Soldiers." With bonuses and back pay the average private left the army with $250 in his pocket. But as the tumult and the shouting died, the old civilian mistrust of the soldier revived. Jobs were easy to find, but veterans often discovered that an ,army record was something to conceal rather than to display. "The veteran," wrote one newspaper, "has encouraged tales of his whiskey-drinking abilities, [recklessness] and foraging [until] citizens believe...
...hours earlier Stalin had an nounced the year's richest victory: the recapture of Kiev (see p. 25). Moscow's walls echoed the jubilant salvos of 324 guns, the pealing of the Kremlin's bells, the happy tumult of the crowds. Now, in Moscow and all over the land, men huddled before the loudspeakers to hear Stalin's report on the triumphs already scored, on the prospects for tomorrow...
...overly obvious gibberish it illustrates. Day Lee has retold the story about the boy and the B.B. gun without sufficient penetration or originality to excuse the return to a high school theme. His small boys are as stereotyped as their actions, and his dialogue is inadequate to indicate the tumult Lee tries to create in his little hearts...
...Washington's tumult nobody had heard the gong. So last week, before a joint session of House Military and Naval Affairs subcommittees, blunt Bill Jeffers roared again that Army & Navy factory expediters were "loafers" who made off with materials he could have used better. An audience of top military men looked on in angry silence. Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Under Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal roared back at the Czar...
Into this tumult barged snappy, tennis-playing Stockholder Norman Charles Norman, a jeweler by trade, a management-watcher by choice. He shouted that all Bond & Share employes should be tossed out; "This is a stockholders' meeting." Another shareholder, threatened to call the police unless everyone was quiet. Finally President Murphy managed to read a 26-page report. It was bad news: profits in the year ended September plopped to a 20-year low; heavy taxes and Government competition were big worries; the Death Sentence Act "is such that perhaps we cannot stay in business...