Word: tumultously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NEITHER tumult in the U.N. nor crises in Aqaba deterred or even interested the participants in one annual spring rite-the pilgrimage to the boulevards of Paris to examine the treasure-trove -of Paris' haute couture. For hundreds of years moralists have thundered and savants deplored the "private luxury" of fashion, but its tides have inexorably rolled on, exposing then obscuring bosoms, enhancing then suppressing derrièeres. This week the iron curtain of secrecy lifts, and U.S. women will see for the first time Fashion Dictator Christian Dior's newest enticements to planned obsolescence. See FOREIGN NEWS...
...effect of the crisis that Déjoie imprudently touched off was to transfer much of his support to Leftist Fignole, and make the government less stable than ever. Moreover the week's tumult crippled the winter's tourist business, Haiti's second after coffee, and hundreds of hotel workers were laid...
...Doren was a kindly, industrious country doctor and farmer. His wife, Eudora A. Butz, was a stern taskmaster who at the age of ten carried the mail on horseback across the prairies. Married in 1883, they raised a family of five boys. "We lived together in a busy tumult," wrote Carl, the oldest of those sons, in his autobiography Three Worlds, "in a close-knit affection which the later scattering of the family has never weakened...
From the Poznan riots to the Battle of Budapest, the one voice which should have been heard above the tumult of revolt was that of Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. For "Titoism," if not Tito, was at the bottom of most of the trouble. Yet Tito had little to say while events were going further than he intended. Like any dictator, he wanted no dictation from the streets. Last week Tito spoke...
...legitimate heirs of the French Revolution. Anti-Communists of all shades-not just the right-joined in spontaneous demonstrations in Paris. Marseille and Lyon. In Bordeaux they tore down the nameplate on Place Stalingrad, renamed it Place Budapest. Flags flew at half-staff. The National Assembly broke into tumult and fighting after Communists jeered a resolution extending sympathy to the Hungarian rebels. "History will judge those who do not associate themselves with this homage!" cried Foreign Minister Christian Pineau...