Word: mad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Mr. Lundy, a lumberman, got into politics by accident. Two months ago, he went to a police station to bail out one of his truck drivers who had been arrested for reckless driving. The police refused to accept his check for $100. This made Lundy so mad at the city administration that he resolved then & there to run for mayor...
...afternoon the word spread: Gaitán was dead. The mob, which had quieted under the efficient handling of federal troops, went mad. Its members drove into the Cundinamarca building (provincial capitol), set fire to Gómez' Conservative newspaper El Siglo. They hurled stones through the windows of the President's palace. Across the city (pop. 400,000) smoke swirled from mob-struck buildings. Federal troops and police were powerless...
...trouble is, the middle class is too respectable to blow off its tensions by getting mad, beating somebody up, and then being hauled away in the paddy wagon to cool down. Instead, it grits its teeth and swallows its hurts, thus producing duodenal ulcers or harsh treatment of the little woman. All the patients studied were above average in intelligence, which prompted the two doctors to conclude that "the more intelligent persons tend to have difficulties with recovery and adjustment to disability...
...kindly and simple, but stubborn at times. The other day we were watching a sunset and I said, 'Just look at that wonderful streak of orange.' He replied, 'No, Jean, it's violet,' and he convinced me. Then I looked again and was mad at myself. It was really orange, you know...
André and his parents arrived in the U.S. ten years ago. As a conservatory student in his native Berlin, he learned about the old masters. In Los Angeles he heard a jazz record by famed Pianist Art Tatum and "went on a mad Tatum kick for four years." José Iturbi heard Andre playing boogie, got him to arrange the boogie pieces for his Holiday in Mexico. M-G-M signed Andre just after he graduated from high school, put him on studio chores- everything from playing the piano for rehearsals to "watching sink" (synchronizing the film with...