Word: mad
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dispatch. Coming as it did on top of the new U.S. decision to double aid to the French in Indo-China, and France's promise of a vigorous new military effort to beat the Reds (TIME, Sept. 28), the report shocked U.S. policymakers. "State Department officials were hopping mad," one correspondent reported. But when they read the complete text of Schumann's remarks and heard the hasty explanations of French officials,U.S. diplomats calmed down. Paris was still solidly behind General Henri Navarre's "We must attack" program for Indo-China, the French explained, but Paris...
Chicago did the most flying (165,000 miles), more than any other U.S. or foreign bureau. Says Bob Schulman: "The general theme of the Chicago bureau's relationships with the airlines is one of odd-hour flights, mad dashes and coverage of massive areas to get the regional understanding so necessary for TIME reporting...
...niminy piminy as it could be when it was founded in 1903 by the late great Press Lord Northcliffe as "a newspaper for gentlewomen, produced by ladies of breeding." After less than a year, with its circulation barely at 25,000, Northcliffe decided the paper was a "mad frolic" because "women can't write, and don't want to read." He ordered his editor to fire the staff and start over again, remaking the Mirror as Britain's first popular picture daily. Getting rid of the women, said one of Northcliffe's editors, "was a horrid...
...falling roof, but the baby, protected by his overturned crib, was saved. Next day the earth shook again, and many fled for the hills in fear that the island would slide beneath the sea. Panic-stricken Cephalonia police radioed to the mainland: "We are all sinking . . . The inhabitants ... are mad with fear. All is crumbling down...
...Cossets studied the U.S. technique of "dating," learning that college rules forbid alcohol, but that it is proper for a coed to drink beer from a paper cup off campus. In Las Vegas, Nev. the Cossets would not have been surprised to find doctors trying to keep their gambling-mad patients happy with slot machines...