Word: tumults
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...last practitioners of firebrand personal journalism, McCormick hoisted the Trib to greatness on his own inexhaustible choler; when he died in 1955, succession passed to men who possessed neither the qualifications nor the will to carry on in the colonel's style. As the Tribune's tumult lessened, Chicagoans began to hear another newspaper voice. It belonged to Marshall Field's Sun-Times...
...Amid the tumult of a crumbling continent, one massive chunk of Africa sleeps on. It is the Africa of Portugal, oldest of all the colonial powers...
...traditionalists. Replied an unCaged modernist: "Go somewhere else if you want melody! Long live music!" Cage barked at the audience; the audience barked back at Cage. One notable dissenter: Igor Stravinsky, who found the whole business so tedious that he slipped out in mid-concert. Asked if the tumult was equal to what went on at the Paris premiere of his own Sacre du Printemps in 1913. the old man replied proudly: "There has never been a scandal like mine...
...Lumumba spoke, the tumult outside the hall all but drowned...
...bang into one of the biggest, loudest crowds that ever greeted a candidate. Perspiring throngs clawed and pushed at him. Nixon placards rose and spun in the humid air, confetti cascaded down from hotel rooms, and the traffic din from Lake Shore Drive fell to a whisper under the tumult in the streets. Squeezing through the tight throngs, Nixon found safety at last in his Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel suite. But it was a safety of sorts. Beneath the clamor and the cheers lay a snorting Republican rebellion that threatened the future not only of Nixon himself but of his party...