Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will enable him to fly by "lifting yourself by your own bootstraps," Black Man, the Soul Wonder of the World, sets out to "rid the universe of poverty, crime and racial bigotry." His arch enemies are Rodent, who breeds on filth and spreads disease; Riot, an immense black gone mad with the craving for destruction; and Narcotics, a heinous figure with hypodermic needles in place of fingers...
...harbors, the President in office always bowed to reason and refused to raise the conflict to a new and dangerous level. Nixon's desperate step proves the bankruptcy of his Vietnamization policy. We rejoice in the failure of his evil plans, but we tremble at the prospects that his mad actions foreshadow...
...system, from the local property tax to the federal income tax, is considered unfair by 80% of the panelists. "When I hear about the rich getting away with paying little or no taxes while we middle class are paying and trying so hard to make ends meet, I get mad," says a California housewife. A retired woman, Janet Lindo, 67, of Mineola, N.Y., "feels sorry for the little guy-he has to pay almost everything he has in taxes." Much of the anger is directed at property taxes. "They are too high and they're going higher," protests...
...knew all along. I remained a fourth-string defensive end for about two days. Then I finally told Yovicsin that I could no longer comfortably remain there when I knew that I was a better runner than any of the halfbacks he had. Telling him my feelings made him mad. He told me that if I moved back to offense, it would have to be as a fullback. I agreed...
...necessary first step in directing the revived outrage against Nixon's recalcitrant war policies. The establishment of a central coordinating committee ensures the development and continuation of massive student response and should result in an atmosphere of national crisis that could give Nixon pause in his pursuit of his mad adventures. But since Harvard students are hardly averse to cutting classes, none of the above activities necessitate the call for a strike. For--if past scenarios have anything to teach us--such defiance only results in a parochial war of attrition between those who could better spend their time...