Word: mad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streets in front of these houses were littered with the debris of terror-old shoes, a battered wide-brimmed felt hat of an Orthodox Jew, an old scarf. One house's door hung slantwise on a twisted hinge, as though its occupants had plunged wildly through it in mad haste. On the rooftops were British sentries with Bren guns. Also to be seen were rooftop Jewish guards-young Haganah members; technically illegal, they were unarmed, but they kept arms within hand's reach...
...this year, unable to swallow another licking by Texas (32-13), old grads put up the money to buy up his unexpired contract and send him packing. Was he mad at his dismissal? Not he. Said Homer: the payoff was fine, and as for Texas A. & M., "My best wishes go with them always...
...cattlemen from Texas, publishers from New York, workingmen from Detroit. They kid me when they see me in this big house-I'm pretty untidy and I wear sweaters and jackets. Looks funny to see someone like me in this place." And sometimes the cowhands get a little mad about Williams' making all that money out of them...
Soprano Regina Resnik sang the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Met while a detective watched from the wings. Nothing happened. The 25-year-old blonde had had anonymous threats from a woman she thought must be mad, since the threatener doubted Regina's ability to do justice to the role...
Must a poet be mad? Doctors, many of whom are sane, doubt it. The British Royal College of Physicians, in a clinically solemn discussion of the creative mind, recently came to the conclusion that writers are not as crazy as they like to think they...