Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's "Mad Major," who shot down 15 German planes, was one of the lucky ones. His real name was Christopher Draper, and he earned his sobriquet by hedgehopping across no man's land to pepper the German trenches with bullets from a .303 rifle, his Webley revolver, and anything else he could lay hands...
...could remember helping Bishop Sheil found the organization that is his chief monument: the Catholic Youth Organization (C.Y.O.). As a young priest, Father Sheil served part-time as a chaplain at the Cook County jail. He walked many a doomed man to the execution chamber, and once a "mad-dog killer" said to him near the end: "Father, why do they wait until now before they start to care?" Later, when Father Sheil was consecrated a bishop at 40, he tried to answer the condemned man's challenge...
...daughter Grace whispered: "Mother is here. She has emerged from the Gloom." Mother Jarrow toddled in from the kitchen of their English cottage. "I am here, Herbert," she said, "I'm always near you, Herbert." :'But in a different world," insisted Herbert, "you died and I went mad...
...Mad old Herbert Jarrow is the hero of Author Edgar Mittelholzer's serio-comic melodrama, The Weather in Middenshot. Until he breaks the back of his new novel with a "message," Author Mittelholzer keeps it jumping with the same comic-sardonic flair that made Shadows Move Among Them (TIME, Sept. 17, 1951) an ingaging satire of a British Guiana Utopia...
Having just taken three hour examinations, I am boiling mad over the conduct of some of the men the University hires to proctor exams. I have noticed this not just this spring, but in final and mid-term exams over the last few years. Just because they are administering an academic exercise, this does not mean they have to act as lord and master over students. But many of them do. They are rude; they treat us like so many unruly school children...