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Word: madder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wait, isn't this too crazy to be believable? It may be mad, but current policy does head us toward war. We will be a lot madder if we don't look before we have already leapt...

Author: By Peter Davis, | Title: Contra-ctual Obligations | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

With every win, the crowds have grown bigger and the chants of "Detroit, Detroit" louder. The pressures have increased. The mania has grown madder...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Icemen Hope to Learn From Experience | 3/24/1987 | See Source »

...valiant, albeit failed, effort to keep up with the madding--and getting madder--crowd, the laborers began to pass out the cushions to any outstretched arm. A scramble then ensued when a rumour began circulating that the supply was almost depleted...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Reporter's Notebook: Food, Glorious Food | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

...talking poor quality, of some dumpity guy, a real lard bucket, being bothered at the dinner table. The guy's name is Kurt Krauss and he's a critic and a producer that everybody hates. We watch about a dozen enemies stop at his table, old Kurt getting madder by the minute, and at the end he tumps over into his rice pudding, poisoned. Whodunit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York State: Who Poisoned the Pudding? | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...year ago, Seamus Heaney, 45, offered his incandescent version of Mad Sweeney, the legendary Irish king who was turned into a bird-man and condemned to live in the trees for slaying a psalmist. In this new collection of verse, Heaney moves to an even higher and madder style. In the process, Station Island reinforces his reputation as the best poet that Ireland has produced since Yeats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inspirations Station Island | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

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