Word: maddening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were afraid to eat the hardtack and chocolate. They ate seaweed and some of them drank sea water. Once they came within a few yards of a coral island, but the coral was so sharp that they could not wade ashore. Hunger, thirst and the Caribbean sun began to madden and kill them...
...will field three of last year's starting five which defeated Harvard 48 to 38. They are captain and leading scorer Jim Cassidy, right forward, bear-like Charley Thomas at right guard, and Howie Mitchell at the pivot position. Newcomers will be Joey Silver at left forward and Red Madden at the other guard...
Last fall, after they bought out Tropical's controlling stockholders (including onetime Capone Henchman John Patton, Bookmaker Frank Erickson and underworldly Owney Madden, who had suddenly been branded "undesirable" by the Florida State 'Racing Commission), Mr. Straus and the Munns had misgivings over the soundness of their venture. The Florida Legislature, seeking to raise $2,000,000 for old-age pensions, voted to increase its 1942 pari-mutuel "take" from 3% to 8%. The track's share remained...
Business leaders discovered that some labor leaders, for a price, would cooperate in destroying competitors. That was the beginning of labor racketeering. Sam Parks, Skinny Madden, Bob Brindell, Al Capone, Tom Maloy, "Joe the Greaser" Rosenweig, "Dopey Benny" Fein, Louis Lepke, Jacob Shapiro, et aL, strewed the industrial U.S. with wrecked property, spoiled vegetables, stink-bombed theaters, ruined laundry, the bodies of innocent bystanders, of fellow goons, of banditti who opposed them...
...other was Montana-born Helen Madden, 30, secretary to Leon Henderson. The well-complected girls became friends over the telephone long ago in the constant crisscross of Nelson-Henderson calls. They had reason to decide to get acquainted, as they sat in the green-leather-&-chromium lounge, munched cream cheese and veal sandwiches. They were destined for greater collaboration, like their bosses, who had become, by Presidential order on the night before, the key men in U.S. defense management...