Word: tumultously
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...tumult went on. After a while Mrs. Roosevelt straightened and dropped her arms. But the cries and applause increased. Time after time she bowed her head, folded her hands. Finally, overcome either by faintness or emotion, she swayed. An aide caught her arm. She sat down, unsteadily, and the car moved...
...hundred bands blared. The yells of 70,000 partisans volleyed and thundered across Mexico City's Olympic stadium. When the tumult died down, a small man spoke into the mike. "Accepting the candidacy of the Party of Revolutionary Institutions (PRI), I understand fully the grave responsibility of this nomination," said Adolfo Ruiz Cort...
...admission threw the press into an angry uproar. New York Times Correspondent George Barrett bellowed: "Who is responsible for this foul-up?" Then as Chief U.N. Representative Colonel Andrew J. Kinney confirmed that the Communist press was represented at Kaesong, the session broke into a tumult of charge and countercharge. Why couldn't U.N. reporters go? When Kinney admitted that .Kaesong was really a Communist-held city, an Army censor broke in to warn correspondents not to use the information. Snapped Chicago Daily Newsman Fred Sparks: "I regard this information as so important that I will not abide...
...seen the flickering of that flame which once burned behind the barricades, that flame which John Locke ennobled into the right of revolution, and that flame which has swept generations of Harvard men out of their stuffy rooms on warm spring evenings and across Cambridge Common to set up tumult and din in the Radcliffe quad...
...much for the British, whose sensitivity on the subject of U.S. admirals, even in a racing shell, had been recently heightened by the appointment of a U.S. officer to command NATO's sea forces. As Carver was hauled dripping to the shore, the crowd burst into a tumult of delighted ribbing...