Word: tumultously
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...tumult and the shouting dies, and English A, pursued by the pack, doubles on its track, licks its bloody wounds, and makes its perennial readjustment. All unnoticed amid the yelping of the critics is a quiet and unassuming little backwater that goes by the handsome name of English A-I. A Freshman, having obtained a mark of over 595 in his English Entrance exam, looks over the list of English courses. Skipping Advanced Public Speaking and Theses for Honors, he sees, after English A-I, "Open to Freshmen who have been excused from English A." Naturally he thinks it better...
...that the strategy by which Missouri's Democrats tried to prevent Governor Donnell from taking office had been worked out at the secret meeting in the De Soto Hotel. At any rate, the legislature refused to seat Donnell. The State's political life was thrown into unholy tumult for six weeks as Governor Stark's term expired and Democratic politicos refused to let Donnell's begin. Democratic Governor Stark demanded that Donnell be seated, the election contested afterwards. What part did Mayor Dickmann play? He stoutly denied any part in the plot to keep Governor Donnell...
...Lend-Lease bill, H.R. 1776, had brought all these emotions to a focus. It was possible, if these emotions focused strongly enough, that they might set fire to something-even to the bill it self. But the cool legislative probability was that, after a week or so of tumult and shouting, the bill would pass in slightly altered form...
This was the uneasy background against which, this week, President Roosevelt spoke to the nation. Because he also spoke for the nation, his words had the effect of lessening the tumult. But before the President said his say, many an earnest, angry or just plain balled-up citizen said...
people, waiting for the polls to open, suddenly became aware that the tumult and the shouting had ceased...