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Word: mad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arcaro's biggest failing used to be his temper. When he got mad during a race, he crashed flagrantly into other horses. He won a reputation as the roughest rider in the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Man on a Horse | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...knows from experience how rough Eddie used to be is Ben-Jones, a pretty rough guy himself. Arcaro, riding for someone else, sometimes crashed horses that Jones was training. Says Eddie: "He's known from Maine to Spain as a tough man. He'd get mad, but he'd cool out." In 16 years, between feuds, Arcaro has ridden just three horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Man on a Horse | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...love for Dumaine was on his side in the fight. They felt that the New York interests (insurance) which had dominated the railroad had given Boston the short end of :he New Haven's business. Lately, South Shore commuters and Cape Codders have been fighting mad over the New Haven's plan to stop passenger service on its subsidiary, the Old Colony Railroad, the only railroad to the Cape. Shrewd Frederic Dumaine said that if he won the New Haven he would try to keep the Old Colony running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raid on the New Haven | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Politics has allegedly raised its ugly head out in the Golden West, and 6,000 Californians are hopping mad over the whole thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U of C Seniors Cry 'Politics' At Commencement Day Shift | 5/12/1948 | See Source »

Recently the doctors removed only certain parts of restraining forebrains. With the neocortex cut out, the cats became utterly placid. Nothing would get them mad. Even when their tails were burned, they responded only with gentle, tolerant spitting. The peacemaking parts of the forebrain were in complete control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lights & Lesser Animals | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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