Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Piper Paid. In London. British Foreign Office Clerk Gordon D. Freestone admitted stealing about ?718 ($2,010) from the consulate in Basra. Iraq, to spend on two dancing girls, but pleaded that his character had been excellent "except for those six mad weeks...
Vlahos' men got pretty tired of Russian propaganda, too. Says De Marco: "Russia .was the greatest country, it had the greatest army, its soldiers were the toughest . . . They sure got mad, though, when the Russians lost the Olympics. One of them fellows told me if he was at the Olympics he woulda beat them Russian athletes with a whip. Can you beat that...
...hour workday, General Mohammed Naguib, Egypt's reluctant strong man, and his eager-beaver officers gathered around a radio in Abbas-sia barracks. They tuned in to hear their hand-picked Premier, Aly Maher, report to the nation. When the Premier had finished, the officers were disappointed and mad. Why hadn't Aly spelled out his proposed social and economic reforms instead of merely saying that reforms were on the way? The Premier had been long on generalities, short on specifics. His only hard & fast promise was a pledge to lift press censorship. To a country tingling...
...Boldly. By 1915 they had done well enough to buy the Sunday Times,* began adding papers in the provinces. Eleven years later they picked up the huge Amalgamated Press and its 70-odd magazines from the estate of the late great Lord Northcliffe (TIME, May 19) who had gone mad before he died. With Camrose as editorial boss and Kemsley, once described as the "greatest debenture salesman in British journalism," raising money and managing the finances, they continued to expand, buying and merging provincial papers that had been killing each other off with competition. Before long they had 25 papers...
...described as "a woman with a capital W." This sentiment is roundly endorsed by Glenn Ford, who plays the older brother of Rita's husband, an artist found dead under mysterious circumstances. Another admirer of Rita's is suave Alexander Scourby, a tycoon who keeps mad dogs on his estate and is given to poring over super-rocket plans in the company of various gentlemen with Iron Curtain accents...