Word: mad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Turkish players entered the referee's dressing room. One made as if to shake the referee's hand, then socked him. Other Turks tried to beat up Italian players. Still mad, they wrecked their Athens hotel before leaving for Turkey, where the whole Turkish nation got into the fight. The Turkish ambassador called on the Greek foreign minister to protest. There were street demonstrations in Istanbul demanding the return of Cyprus, the Dodecanese and Dedeagach...
...minds, called in psychiatrists, clergymen and social workers, finally insisted on chopping out eight of the film's most harrowing minutes. Cuts: scenes showing Actress Olivia de Havil-land undergoing shock treatment and a mental lapse; a patient drooling food; another in a strait jacket; several scenes of mad behavior that, the censors feared, might touch off hysterical audience laughter...
...this sad affair, he intended "to kidnap a [royal] maid of honor and take her to an uninhabited island." It was no wonder that London buzzed with fantastic rumors and no wonder that Dickens found himself furiously denying that he had suddenly "become a Roman Catholic and was raving mad in an asylum...
Baseball Commissioner Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler was not mad, just terribly hurt. The sportwriters had swung him around their heads with gay, unremitting abandon for his summary suspension of Leo Durocher over a Polo Grounds dust-up with a loudmouthed fan (TIME, May 9). In Cincinnati last week, Happy Chandler exonerated himself and "The Lip"-in that order...
...Republicans were not appeased. Cried New Hampshire's angry Styles Bridges: "Everyone on the Republican side this morning was either sick to his stomach or mad as hell. It is impossible for me to understand how any Republican Senator would resign his position of responsibility and trust when it meant turning the post over to a Democrat.* It doesn't smell good to me." But to the Democrats, and especially to Chester Bowles, it smelled fine...