Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declared: "I could not believe, when I read the speech, that Nat Dial was the author. He and I come from that little storm-centre of the United States which has given to the nation some of its brightest and purest lights in the political arena, and during the turmoil and strife of war we maintained and kept the faith of pure and unadulterated democracy. The old party was our pillar of fire by night and cloud by day. When the hosts of rapine were threatening to engulf us, the Democratic Party was the point around which the beleaguered white...
...tired world pricks up its drooping ears when it hears news of this sort, and breathes a prayer of gratitude. In the midst of turmoil and confusion, there is, then, one nation that has a care for its food, one gathering of experts who say save the universe from dyspepsia. And hearing, the world turns again to its endless labors, confident that come what may, it will at least be well...
Cambridge awakes this morning to turmoil. It is infested with tigers. Tigers on the street, tigers in the Yard, tigers in furtive conference with Max Keezer, tigers in the bathroom, tigers sleeping in one's bed, tigers wanting to sleep in one's bed, "upstairs, downstairs, in my lady's chamber" everywhere tigers. There are tigers anxious, tigers confident, tigers nonchalant, tigers morose, tigers joyous, tigers hilarious tigers in every stage of preparation for the great climax...
...Calif arose; but the Sultanate was ground to dust by the puissant heel of Democracy. It was to be only a matter of time before the sole of the same foot was to crush the Califate, the holy office of the Successor to the Prophet. No wonder there was turmoil in Islam...
...more than a geographical expression. Nothing short of a civil war between the Centre under Gen. Wu, "biggest man in China," the South under Dr. Sun Yatsen, and the North under Marshal Chang can ever clear away the political strife which for years has thrown the country into annual turmoil...