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Word: mad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head, in the concentration that gives the psychological edge. It's in being on top of every ball and fired for every point. And that winner's edge, the stuff of King's clenched fists, comes only out of wanting it more than the other guy. King was mad with wanting it, Riggs just greedy...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: The Sugar Daddy Won't Last All Day | 9/25/1973 | See Source »

...mad, wanting to be a zoo-keeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Animal Farm | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...mad, wanting to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Animal Farm | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...finally coaxed into feasting on smoked cod roe. A sulking capybara, the world's largest rodent, was found to be partial to spaghetti. "An animal likes variety just as we do," says Durrell, a skilled cook. "If you give it a tomato day after day, it goes mad. It may want a bloody watermelon for a change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Animal Farm | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...said that most Americans tend to pre-judge and accept what they read in the newspapers all too easily, and he cited an Atlanta paper which portrayed the Viet Vets as "mad bombers" and "hoodlums" in front-page headlines. "That type of publicity didn't help our cause very much," he said...

Author: By Travis P. Dungan, | Title: Perdue: A Gainesville Defendant Changes Tactics | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

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