Word: tumult
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...darkness and tumult, Elizabeth and Jamesremember certain details differently--he recallsthe police entering from the Widener side, whileshe says they swept in next to the John Harvardstatue. But they both agree that the violence leftthem confused and frightened...
...wave of student radicalism sparking riots and protests across the country could not be held back even by Harvard's formidable traditions. The campus was thrown into tumult by protests by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which gained momentum through 1969 to the April takeover of University Hall...
...bust, as it would come to be known, wouldonly take a few minutes. The last paddy wagonsleft the Yard at 5:25 a.m. In that time, 196students were arrested, and dozens injured. Anextra edition of The Crimson that morning captureda moment of the tumult inside the hall: "A shortbrown-haired girl was hurled against the room'swooden divider and a trooper shouted, 'If youdon't stay there I'll break your fuckin' head.'"By the time the police left, the sidewalk outsideUniversity Hall was spattered with blood...
...first, their song went almost unheard. The tumult of voices and laughter and a steady stream of worshippers spilling out of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, a crowd happy at the end of the Easter Vigil and the resurrection of their Lord, at first obscured the crowd of joyful singers. As they sang and danced in celebration, they offered hands and made spaces for the growing throng of onlookers. My friends and I were soon drawn into the circle. Those baptized and received into the Church by Pope John Paul II himself that night, were of every race...
Like Clinton and others have said, Milosevic is a savage tyrant. He has ascended to dominance in the Balkans in tumultuous times and added to the tumult with his zealous appeals to Serbian nationalism and his ethnic cleansing. It is because he has such a history of belligerence that the U.S. should realize that he will fight until it forces him to stop fighting. The U.S. needs to terrify him into submission with a swift, assertive show of power. The U.S. needs to fight directly and in-person, stopping his savagery with the savageries...