Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, McNamara's point was lost on 1,000 protesters, mainly students, who burned him in effigy because they could not forgive his role in shaping Viet Nam War strategy. Their enthusiasm was misplaced; the rioters themselves could hardly have denounced "the mad momentum" of the arms race with more passionate eloquence than McNamara. Said...
...floor. He knew that members of the House had been blistered by their constituents for turning down President Carter's plan for stand-by gasoline rationing. The Speaker also realized that the voters were fed up with the oil companies. "I've never seen the public so mad," O'Neill told reporters. "You take away gasoline and you destroy the family. That's the way they feel." Indiana Democrat John Brademas saw another reason for the vote, urged along by persuasive conservationist lobbying: "There is a feeling of protecting the great natural legacy of Alaska...
...call "heavy" TV watching. In-depth testing of a sample of 600 proved heavy viewers are more fearful, anxious and suspicious of the world than "light" viewers. Significantly more of them replied "almost always" when asked, "How often is it all right to hit someone if you're mad at them?" As to reading, Gross says, "except occasionally for the lowest IQ group who do a little better if they watch TV -because they see some printed words at least-for most children the more television the worse they do in school...
...only way he can get financing for his last-hope project, a remake of Anna Karenina. The star is as ravishing as ever, thanks, it is said, to one of those goat-gland doctors, who is part of her grotesque entourage. Unfortunately the lady seems to be as mad as one of Hedda Hopper's hats (Hedda is but one of dozens of names from our shared celluloid past invoked to give the movie a certain air of strained realism...
...businessman, Joseph more than anyone else has been responsible for the Tories' monetarist vision of an unfettered economy. Joseph has been accused of insensitivity toward the poor-he once claimed that what Britain needed was "more millionaires and more bankrupts"-and even some Tories characterize him as a "mad monk." Sir Keith readily admits the failings that have made him a bogeyman to the left. "I know I have a first-class mind," he once said, "but I have no political judgment whatsoever." Thus, despite his powerful influence on Thatcher, he was given the relatively minor Cabinet post...