The service is in ferment at the moment, the knives are out.

Iranian society as we see it today, therefore, is in ferment.

The country was in ferment at once, and the wildest excitement prevailed.

The whole of this region is in ferment.

Town-planning ideas were in ferment from another direction too.

The whole Barham area will be in ferment for weeks."

Albion was in ferment; men were moving on the land, seeking safety and solace.

ŚHis mind was in ferment, and he had no desire for further distraction.

Below me the land was in ferment.

Socially, India is in ferment, although opinions differ sharply on the causes and consequences of that.

But his mind was in ferment.

Worse than this, Alexandria was in ferment.

Willing informants gave him the name of his aggressor, and before morning the Table Hill camp was in ferment.

World War I was about to conclude, and India was in ferment.

Once more ideas were in ferment.

For weeks now his life had been in ferment, his moods as freakish as the wind.

New York was in ferment.

Hempstead is in ferment politically as well as economically.

The lake was in ferment.

"When I arrived in the city, Off-Off Broadway was in ferment," he said.

And while Africa and Asia were in ferment, modernity faced its own Waterloo on the fields of the advanced industrial nations.

This development in artistic expression came about when Russia was in a revolutionary state, ideas were in ferment, and the old order was being swept away.

Even before the rioting started on Sept. 9, 1971, the state prison in Attica, N.Y., was in ferment.

So much of physics was in ferment in your time--" Olmy moved in quickly and picted something Patricia did not understand.

Leverage in Moscow The influx of money stabilized Mr. Honecker's Government while much of the Soviet bloc was in ferment.