Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mudheads bounded in. The Mudheads are idiot children born of a god's incestuous union with his sister; their sack-like masks with doughnut-shaped eyes and mouth are hideous and their movements are wild and grotesque. The touch of a Mudhead can drive a good man sex-mad, say the Zuñis, and they shrink before their threatening leaps and insane gyrations. Later in the evening the Shalakos had their turn...
...team will also enter five or six men in the Mad River Glen Class "C" Giant Slalom at Mad River, Vt., Sunday afternoon...
...pleasant bedlam-grandchildren, toys, noise, and the happy litter of Christmas night. Mamie, with an arm around Ike's shoulders, coaxed him to tell reporters how he felt: "Tell them what you said to me this morning." Ike grinned and complied: "I said I'm not mad at anybody...
...called itself the "World's Greatest Newspaper," and its radio station is consequently labeled WGN; station WIOD in Miami symbolizes "Wonderful Isle of Dreams," and Atlanta's WSB means "Welcome South, Brother." Other appropriate call letters: the coyote howl of KIYI for Shelby, Mont.; KENO for gambling-mad Las Vegas, and KAVE for New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns...
...here is pleasant, but hardly striking. However, the climactic fight with an octopus is staged well enough, and everything comes epically to an end with a line not even Homer could have written. Says Paris, by way of offering peace to Helen's father: "Don't be mad...