Word: mad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exclusive bargaining but also for a closed shop. That meant that every C. I. O. man in National Electric's plant had to join the A. F. of L. union and have union dues deducted from his pay. Since it claimed a majority, C. I. O. was hopping mad, promptly called a strike, complained to the Labor Board...
...wheedle Italy into accepting this or even attendance at the conference, it was important that Italy should not be accused directly, but Russia, fighting mad at the loss of her ships during the summer, suddenly upset the apple cart. Bluntly she sent a note to Rome, accusing Italy outright of the torpedoing of the Soviet freighters Timiriazev and Blagoev during the past week and demanding cash reparations. Just as bluntly Italy denied the torpedoing, refused payment, intimated she would sit at no conference table with Russia...
...figgerin on collectin no dues nor fees fer joinin. Course I know thet's gonna make some of them perfessional organizers mad. But ter keep things even, I ain't gonna make no promises neither. Fer the truth is, all the politicians and perfessional organizers has already used up all the good promises; and no former apple butter stirrers would be satisfied with enny second-rate promises...
...allegorical significance of Author Prokosch's tale, may feel that his situations are too farfetched to be credible. But they are likely to admit that his people are real human beings, that his mountains are really cold, his deserts really hot enough to cause camels to go mad, to make stones look as though "they must burst and bleed away...
...Perkins' desk and then over the desk and down on his head in a corner." Author Hemingway offered his story as he sailed for Spain. On his forehead were bruises, on his arms, scars. His version: "Max Eastman didn't do that to me. I got so mad . . . that I wound up by throwing the book in his face. I didn't really sock him. If I had I might have knocked him through the window and out into Fifth Avenue. That would have been fine, wouldn't it? I just held him off. I didn...