Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Playboy Aly Khan, now Pakistan's permanent U.N. representative, rounded into smooth diplomatic form for his first on-the-job reception, celebrating Pakistan's Republic Day. Full of charm and good humor, Envoy Aly manfully greeted some 1,100 guests (among them: U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge, mad-hatted Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper, Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) who in two hours guzzled 30 cases of champagne, chomped 30 Ibs. of phaji (spinach fried in batter). For his crowded frolic, Aly earned an approving smile from Old Partygiveri Elsa Maxwell ("One of the best parties I've ever...
Back at his Beirut travel base of operations. Author Sitwell was driven half mad by the continual playing of Scheherazade over the hotel's loudspeaker system. But he had no complaints about "the tourist service that had arranged most of his tour, appropriately named the Sinbad Travel Agents...
...Navy's anchor," some of the wits had dubbed the bird, and someone suggested that all Vanguard needed was a rubber band to spring it skyward. Said Scientist J. (for James) Paul Walsh, 40, pugnacious Vanguard deputy director who bossed the Cape project: "It made me goddam mad. If they call you a lummox long enough, you've got to be careful or you'll start believing...
...groups." Concluded Clayton: "Our oil imports come partly from Venezuela (buyer annually of $1 billion of American goods, the economic equivalent of 250,000 American jobs), partly from Canada (our best customer in all the world), partly from the Middle East. Are we going to make all these areas mad just to maintain higher prices and big profits for domestic oil producers? If so, we are headed down the road to disunity in the free world and its eventual defeat...
...slowly the things he hired me for he is criticizing me for now. Now everybody can bounce off me but I'm not supposed to bounce off them. Jack will take an innocent remark the wrong way. Now, when I just look at him it makes him mad...