Word: mad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the country. In Seoul, the capital, the liberal People's Republic Group, which turned out to be a Communist front, said it was going to demonstrate against trusteeship, too. The U.S. commander of the southern zone, Lieut. General John Reed Hodge, refused permission. The Communists went away mad, said they would parade anyway...
...happy frame of mind; finally one night, when she was sad, he got it over with). But the crime is seldom shrewdly planned; many psychotic murderers operate in broad daylight, in public places, using any weapon that happens to come to hand. Another characteristic clue left by the mad killer is unnecessary roughness (cutting the body into ribbons or stuffing it into a drainpipe). Since the psychotic lives in a private world, he hardly ever has accomplices...
...from concealing the clues and making a crafty getaway, the mad murderer is usually indifferent about being arrested. Often, like Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov, he is anxious for his crime to be followed by punishment...
...umbrage - gets too much blood in his stomach walls; if he stays angry too long, ulcers may result. The fury or sulking fits aroused by threats to a man's life or his love, said Dr. Wolff, sometimes affects his nose: it may swell up and hurt. A "mad" nose, caught with its resistance down, is easy prey to colds and other infections...
...came in breathlessly, wanting an Austrian dictionary. "You know there's no such thing," Mueller explains fretfully. "It's German, of course." But annoyance is inevitable, for business is looking up. Books are pouring in now from all over the world except Germany. The French are creating like mad; every day a few copies of Pravda arrive; and Mueller is convinced that Europe is going to be as active in literature as it ever was before...