Word: tumults
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...left to work out its destiny in remote solitude. France's pre-Revolutionary success had made it the center of the world. What happened at the center concerned all. Within the souls of Frenchmen, and outside the borders of their country, the counter-revolutionary pressures mounted. The tumult of the irresistible crunching against the immovable made constructive thought impossible...
...once, Railroader Johnston didn't care. The Illinois Central was celebrating its 100th anniversary. All along its 6,543 miles of track between Chicago and New Orleans, the same tumult of bells and whistles broke loose on the "Main Line of Mid-America." The Illinois Central had plenty to toot about. It dominated the length & breadth of the Mississippi Valley-which Alexis de Tocqueville had called "the most magnificent dwelling place prepared by God for man's abode." The Central had opened up the dwelling place...
...that atmosphere of tumult and frantic improvisation, the nation got the news it had been waiting for: prices & wages, which had zoomed to the highest levels in U.S. history were finally under control. The controls reached down to the farthest corners of the giant U.S. economy. They were wrapped up in two sweeping decrees, which covered three principal areas...
Chesterton accused Shaw of the gloom of a general Puritanism, and this naturally rankled. The weakness of the Puritan, especially of the Shavian kind, is his dangerous levity and cheerfulness, the merry, practical streak which evades the ungovernable tumult of feeling. The theory that the Life Force was driving on and on was felt by his audiences to be an escape from the crucifying emotional matter of the gains and losses. One more dazzling Irishman had talked himself out of life into the heavens like a whizzing rocket and had come down dead and extinct like the stick. One more...
...tumult and the shouting died at Seventeen, fresh outcries filled the nearby offices of Street & Smith's Charm (circ. 581,848), a magazine aimed at the "business girl" audience. Editor-in-Chief Frances Harrington, a peppy, prematurely white-haired woman of 45, had been fired after seven years. Her successor: Helen Valentine. To Charm with Mrs. V. came Seventeen's ex-managing editor. Out with Editor Harrington went six members of her cabinet. (Total casualties at week's end on both Seventeen and Charm: twelve.) Sweetly oblivious to all the tirades and tizzies swirling around her, Editor...