Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another example. Industrial leaders begin, as though it is a difficult perception, to see that the assembly line has a diminishing utility because, over time, it drives people quite mad, causing them either to work badly because of sheer boredom or because of active hatred. Either way, the line becomes a target for industrial sabotage of an order previously known only in places being occupied by a tyrant enemy...
...father "wasn't angry, there was nothing really to be mad about, just shocked," his son said, adding that the speaker did not think that Nixon would resign...
Susan doesn't tell Hart she is Kingsfield's daughter. When he finds out, he gets mad. They fight. They make up. They plan a week-end at the Cape, but Hart cancels it to research a supplement for Kingsfield's new book. They fight again--in a supermarket this time. Susan tells Hart that he's taking school too seriously, that he's just chasing a piece of paper, nothing more. Waving a roll of toilet paper, she says his diploma is just another kind of paper, "no different from this...
...having betrayed Algérie française. The authors, Pierre Démaret, 31, who once belonged to the O.A.S., and Christian Plume, 48, a journalist, interviewed former O.A.S. leaders and obtained access to the French Interior Ministry's records. The result is an extraordinary tale of mad zeal, abominable planning and incredibly bad luck by what was surely the world's most dedicated and inept gang of assassins...
...decided to try something modeled on the au pair system, in which families take in students. The girls are not paid servants, but they help out with kids and housework in exchange for room and board. "Everybody thought I was mad," Coffe recalls, but he was sure the idea could be sold, substituting old people for young. He decided to handle the campaign "as I would a noodle account" and set about placing stories in newspapers and on television...