Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under-the-table deals. "White coaches think that since most blacks are poor, we'll jump at the money," says Marvin Powell. " 'Your mama need help? Tell her not to worry,' they say." Says Moses Malone: " People who try to buy me make me very mad...
...bettors can watch the tote board and the race on a 40-ft. closed-circuit TV screen. It is more convenient to put down late bets that way. Between races they study Vince De Marco's 75? greyhound tip sheet. When the mechanical rabbit takes off on its mad whirl around the track, the fans become possessed. Cries of "Come on, you goddam dog!" echo through the auditorium...
...little more than three hours later, the "mad odyssey," as one Arab commentator described it, ended in the Persian Gulf emirate of Kuwait. Again airport authorities refused landing permission. Under threat from the terrorists, Captain Joe Kroese brought in his plane anyway on a secondary runway. After an hour of haggling between the terrorists and Kuwaiti officials over conditions of surrender, the twelve hostages and crewmen quietly walked down the ramp, followed a short time later by their captors. "We are Palestinian Arabs, not criminals," declared one of them. "The criminals are the ones who bomb Palestinian refugee camps...
...other farces. Here, the adulterers actually do commit adultery as well as catapult through the wrong doors at the wrong times. The chase is carnal and frantic, and the tone is leeringly Marxian (Groucho Dept.). Rachel Roberts is having her first affair, and John McMartin is the mad man in her life. As Bea Lillie once said, it's a case of"L'amour, the merrier...
...colonial age in Africa stampeded in as the British, French, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Italians all raced into the interior of Africa in the year following the 1870 explorations of Livingston and Stanley. In this mad scramble for a piece of Africa, one government often annexed territory hurriedly simply to prevent another from doing so first; colonies came to have enormous value in symbolism and prestige...