Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waltsfield Mad River -16-25, 5 powder. Good to excellent...
...moonlight night in 1951, Charley Gilliland was staring down a long ravine covered by his BAR when the shadows erupted in a mad, whistle-blowing, screaming Chinese attack. Rifle fire raked his position; shells crashed in around him. Charley Gilliland stood firm, aiming, firing, aiming, firing. His ammunition loader was killed, but still he held the position. Two Chinese got behind Gilliland. He left his foxhole, killed them both with a pistol. But he was shot in the back of his head himself. The order came for the company to retreat. Gilliland asked permission to stay so that he could...
Dorothy Dandridge's Carmen has her best moments in the Habanera aria where she establishes the brand of sultriness which is to drive men mad. Miss Dandridge seems a little relenting for this demoniac task but her equipage is more than adequate. Harry Bellafonte, as Joe--nee Don Jose--relies too much on eye-popping and nerve-straining, emotional displays which the Cinema-Scopic screen shoves into the realm of the ludicrous...
Konrad Adenauer stood inside the glass-walled caucus room of Bonn's ultramodern Bundeshaus one afternoon last week, white-faced and trembling. Nobody could recall ever seeing him quite so mad before. He had personally hand-picked Eugen Gerstenmaier, 48, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, as the man to succeed the late Hermann Ehlers as Speaker of the Bundestag (Lower House). Gerstenmaier was a Christian Democratic Deputy, a leading Protestant Church official (and thus a politically useful counterweight to the Catholic Chancellor himself), a devoted follower of Adenauer, a passionate believer in European unity. Besides Gerstenmaier...
...senior sensation who can do anything on the football field, personally accounted for more than half the 2,072 yds. his team had gained by midseason. Army, after its slow start, came up with an All-America prospect in its acrobatic end, Don Holleder. The University of Miami, hopping mad because the N.C.A.A. peeked around its blinders and imposed punishment for overenthusiastic recruiting, has been pulverizing its opposition. Oklahoma, still addicted to exasperating fumbles, still keeps winning...