Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undertake a complicated course of treatment. The patient worked hard to obtain the requisite cigarettes. When she turned the payoff over to the doctor, he in turn used the Kents to help buy a hard-to-get passport. He then departed the country, leaving his patient untreated-and smoking mad...
...head so fast that Lee keeps a tape recorder by his bed to catch them late at night. Probably the most familiar of Lee's TV heroes is the Incredible Hulk, a pleasant enough physicist (Bill Bixby) who turns into a green monster (Lou Ferrigno) when he gets mad at some injustice or another, which happens predictably every Wednesday night. Another Lee creation is Captain America, who made his first appearance this month. Captain America's mission is to fight all enemies of the American way of life, whatever that is. Though he has no regular hour, Spider...
...professor of art history who opposes the strike said yesterday nearly half of the university's 900 full-time faculty members "hate Silber" and added faculty members considered the strike "as much to get back at him (Silber) as for other reasons." "The faculty knew this would get him mad and so they did it," Edgerton added...
...began, most college leaders were wrapped in a hazy optimism. Enrollments were soaring, new buildings sprouted everywhere, and Ph.D.s were produced by the carload. As a result, the shocks of the '70s hit the schools like a scale8 earthquake. Says University of Chicago Sociologist Edward Shils: "We went mad over higher education. Giving every teen-ager an opportunity to go to college became a mark of American grandeur in the world. It was a silly delusion." Northwestern's Ellis puts it more simply: "We let ourselves get fat." Sound management principles were ignored. Argues Sumner G. Rahr...
Nationally, the steepest rises have come in life's necessities: food, clothing, shelter, transportation. Since poor people have less money to start with, they have been squeezed harder than the mad-as-hell middle class and affluent people. In Atlanta, however, housing is an exception. Overbuilding in recent years has held prices down. A three-bedroom house at $54,000 is still far beyond the reach of someone earning even twice as much as $6,191 a year, which is the federally set "poverty level" for a nonfarm family of four. But the average price of a house...