Word: maddering
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...became even madder to get there when, shortly before she turned 14, the father she adored (and relied upon for literary inspiration) left home. From that day forward, Barbara wrote less and less, became more and more bewildered about herself as a writer and a person. She took a job as a secretary and hated it. She made a marriage but could not make it work. And then one evening in 1939, when she was 25, she walked out of her Boston apartment with thirty dollars in her pocket and was never seen again. Is she dead? Is she living...
...that Betancourt had not acted alone-five plane passengers who had "paid various sums of money to Betancourt so that he would include them on the trip." Fidel Castro blamed the whole unhappy incident on "Yankee imperialist policy that constantly stimulates and pays deserters," but he was clearly even madder that Betancourt had eluded Cuba's porous security system for so long...
...union at week's end by asking the courts for a $322,000-a-day retroactive fine against the T.W.U., whose total treasury is so modest (less than $1,000,000) that it does not even pay its union members strike benefits. That only made the T.W.U. madder and brought charges that the Authority was trying to bust the union. "As a result," said Douglas MacMahon, "negotiations are now at a standstill." No one was quite sure just how long New Yorkers would have to walk, but everyone suddenly recalled that Mike Quill had predicted a long strike, perhaps...
...Madder than Hell. Of all his NACA work, Kraft is proudest of a system that he and Phillips devised to smooth out flights in rough air. They redesigned an old twin-engine Beechcraft C45 and fitted it with automatic controls that reduced the plane's lift when it was hit by an upward gust, increased it when hit by a down draft. The system worked well, but commercial aircraft builders considered it too heavy and expensive−a decision that still infuriates Kraft. "It makes me madder than hell when I fly and have to bounce around," he complains...
...Governors of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico were madder than wet hens, and all over a dry lake. The object of their ire was Interior Secretary Stuart Udall, whom they accused of stealing their hydroelectric water supply and using it to feed power plants in California and Udall's native Arizona...