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Word: mad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, Sondondo's beat was lost in a steady roar. After days of steady downpour, the river had flooded the gorge. Said Sondondinos, peering up at the lowering sky: "Apu Karwarasu is mad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake from Above | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...custom found its way to England, where the versatile William Shakespeare saw fit to burlesque it. From the lips of the mad Ophelia in Hamlet, Act IV, Scene v, comes probably both the funniest and most ribald Valentine messaged over cooed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prim Valentine's Day Faces College, but Romans Reveled | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...could I die for you, who in mad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mildness Is No More | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Waitsfield Mad River Glen--16-20, four powder. Cloudy. Fair to good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fair Snow Waits Expectant Skiers | 2/3/1949 | See Source »

...Jewish quarter at Sachsenhausen). "Dante's Inferno couldn't be worse. There were more than a thousand Jews; that is, they had once been Jews and human beings, now they were living skeletons, beastlike in their mad hunger. They flung themselves on the dust bins, or rather plunged into them, head and shoulders, several at a time; they scratched up everything, absolutely everything that was lying in them, potato peel, garbage, rottenness of every kind . . . The whole time, without a break, the blows from rubber truncheons were hailing down on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buried Alive | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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