Word: tumult
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...relative moderation to date of Congressional reaction to campus tumult may, in part, be due to a belated realization that repressive legislation is an inadequate and perhaps even counter-productive response to university problems. In a report on college unrest sent to President Nixon on June 17, a group of 22 Republican Congressmen said that...
...reason for the sudden decline in popularity is McGovern's chairmanship of a special commission investigating-and finding-abuses in the selection of convention delegates. Born of the Chicago convention's tumult and disillusionment, the commission was set up by the party leadership as a sop to the liberals. McGovern was named chairman as a compromise between extreme dissidents and regulars. But his way of running the commission has turned out to be almost as divisive as the convention itself and the Viet Nam issue...
When the parodied the second issue of the magazine, the response was so unfavorable that the Lampoon parody of the Boston Transcript passed almost unnoticed in the tumult...
...soon our own land, with joyous tumult...
...Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle," he says. "I had forgotten only two things. Parliament and De Gaulle." But if he has not reconciled the two institutions, he has at least bridged them. As for the future, Paris rumor has it that, during the tumult, Pompidou reached a clear but tacit agreement with De Gaulle on when the President would retire. Whether that is true or not, when a lonely, shaken De Gaulle was planning his now famous rendezvous with French generals, he found time to telephone Pompidou. De Gaulle's parting words seem...