Word: tumult
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...author traces the tumult of the period by following the career of a great feudal lord, Enguerrand de Coucy VII, the seigneur of some 150 towns and villages in Picardy. He was born in 1340, and he died in captivity in 1397, having been made a prisoner by the Turks. Coucy was the best of his kind, an able diplomat, a shrewd military leader and a man of good luck. His campaigns took him to England (where he married King Edward's daughter), Tunisia, Italy, Switzerland and Hungary. He died at century's end, appropriately for Tuchman...
...Tumult is caused by the unresolved problems of the 30s and the first emotional awareness that time is running out and death will come...
...wilted and dazed in those ceremonies, rallied for a 40-minute speech notable for its force and its predictability (the U.S. needs a strong military and intelligence capability, a strong economy, the will to fight "against aggressors who go under borders rather than over borders"). At last, in a tumult of approval, he invoked the "real America-a spirit you'll find in great cities and small towns, in factories and mines. I know that spirit is strong in the heartland of America, Leslie County, Kentucky...
Almost all the people who went to college from about 1965 through 1972, even the tamest ones, were deeply and permanently affected by the tumult of those wild and grim times. The so-called '60s kids clearly constitute a group apart, markedly different from the gang that graduated in the 1950s and early 1960s, who celebrated football, proms and exclusive fraternities, and somewhat different from the more conventional, career-directed students of today. Yet it was not difficult for corporations to recruit the '60s kids. As products of the postwar baby boom, they faced stiff competition for places...
Confronted with admirers and new-found followers of his own, Spinks quickly retreated to a room rented under a different name in the Las Vegas Hilton. In the tumult of victory, all the new champion could think of was that he'd like to take a trip somewhere: "Maybe a cruise. Yeah, a cruise. I'd like to go to England...