Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When later Crusades invaded Egypt, Brother Francis of Assisi went ashore to persuade the Sultan to let the Christians pass to Jerusalem in peace. "The Moslem guards were suspicious at first," says Run-ciman, "but soon decided that anyone so simple, so gentle and so dirty must be mad, and treated him with the respect due to a man touched by God. He was taken to the Sultan al-Kamil. who was charmed by him and listened patiently to his appeal, but who was too kind and too highly civilized to allow him to give witness to his faith...
Just before the intermission, to break the pace, the band selected three young ladies from the audience for a band conducting contest. A Miss Ceil Saperstein, from N.Y.U., led the group at a mad pace to win the contest. She was awarded a Band album despite ugly rumblings from the glockenspiel section, one of whose members wanted to be the prize...
...outfit that's running this campaign on the Democratic side. And don't you think for one minute that as I progress in this campaign that I will hesitate to take off the gloves and take them on, because I can battle, too. I can get mad, too. And when I fight skunks, I fight skunks with the same kind of stink they have...
Meanwhile, out in the cold reaches of outer space, a band of interstellar cavemen were put to flight just as they were about to burn alive Vena, the beautiful navigator for Rocky Jones, Space Ranger; a bearded, mad scientist was certain to be thwarted by right-thinking Captain Video who, as the press release puts it, is an unbeatable "combination of Einstein, King Arthur and Marco Polo," and Space Patrol's Commander Buzz Corry was zooming through the cosmos intent on reforming the almost limitless supply of villains with his soul-washing Brain-O-Graph...
...After lunch we hit the alltime high of the day on squawks," said his report. "It was always a woman on the phone and baby [roused by jets] screaming in the background . . . I learned that a woman has enough mad and enough breath saved up to make an impenetrable conversational barrier anywhere from four to six minutes after she starts. A man is a fool to try to break in . . . to explain why a jet makes noise...