Word: tumult
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Even New England Marches eventually get their acts together, and the inevitable sets in. Out of all the tumult emerge warmth and baseball games and caps and gowns...
While it’s hard to predict how strongly a U.S. attack on Iraq will reverberate on campus, many believe Harvard is sure to live up to its legacy of wartime tumult...
...watermark. In urban China in the 21st century, this is known as a sunny day. At an outdoor marketplace, a teeming tenement of narrow stalls and alleys, clamoring vendors peddle knockoff Rolex watches and Nike sneakers, pirated videos, severed ducks' heads and trussed pink pigs. Into this tumult strides a 2.13-meter alien from the imperial courts of the U.S. But he is no tourist...
...Maybe, for once, Zhang just wants to fit in. It's an understandable drive for someone who, thanks to the tumult of China's postwar politics, has always lived on the margins. Zhang's father fought with the nationalists in the Chinese civil war; Zhang, born two years after the communist victory, grew up in the social ghetto reserved for children of traitors. During the Cultural Revolution he was forced to leave high school, barred from applying to college, and given a job fit for the lowliest of political undesirables: as a night-shift janitor at a cotton mill...
...meeting was, however, expected to be tense because of recent tumult concerning D’Alessandro’s controversial merger plans for the district’s 15 elementary schools to combat declining enrollment and a $3.6 million budget deficit...