Word: mad
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...seven death row inmates attempted to escape from Huntsville Prison, about 80 miles north of Houston. The enterprising fellas apparently used a hacksaw to cut a hole in a recreation yard fence, hid on the roof of a cell block for nearly three hours and then made a mad dash for two 10-foot perimeter fences topped with razor wire. Huntsville guards opened fire immediately, emptying nearly 20 rounds. All the prisoners froze in their tracks and fell to the ground shaken but unhit--all except Martin E. Gurule, who scaled both walls (using either clothing or a blanket...
...What makes me mad is you scratch and fight for 60 minutes, and the guys in striped shirts decide it," said a positively righteous Bill Cowher. "There's just something wrong about that...
...senior like me, you are probably cringing because you also must face the daunting task of choosing that one topic which you will embrace, study and finally write like mad about...
...their casts through ever more ethereal effects of movement and stage lighting; their defiance of gravity was to popular theater what the computer generation of dinosaurs and space oddities is to movies today. Arthur Conan Doyle was the son of a fairy painter, Charles Altamont Doyle, who died mad, but the creator of Sherlock Holmes was so gullible himself that as late as 1917 he defended some fake photos of fairies made by an enterprising pair of teenage English schoolgirls. You'd almost suppose that the national emblem of England was neither the lion nor the unicorn nor even John...
After reading your article, I promptly downloaded and installed Netscape Navigator and uninstalled Microsoft's Internet Explorer. I wanted to do my part to ensure that a power-mad Gates does not control every aspect of desktop computing and the World Wide Web. Is total domination of the computer world the only thing that will satisfy this man? Not if I have anything to say about it! I hope I'm not alone. SCOTT FULLMER Delta, Utah