Word: maddering
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...week's end, Ike had reason to be madder than ever. During a Palm Beach press conference, Jack Kennedy noted that no commitment at all had been offered to Dillon. "A President," said Kennedy, "can't enter into treaties with Cabinet members...
...Aluminium's 9,000,000 shares, to help in buying more shares. The banks said they would pay $11.48 a share for one-half of each stockholder's holdings if he would keep the rest three months, i.e., until the fight was over. This only made stockholders madder, since it showed that the original price to Alcoa had been much...
...They're mad, simply mad," cooed a Los Angeles coed out shopping for her fall regalia last week. What drives the girls mad-and may well make the boys a lot madder-is this fall's latest fashion: a glove-tight, foot-to-waist cross between Ebenezer's red flannel long Johns and Fonteyn's ballet costume. The biggest thing since Bermuda shorts, the new tights emphasize that slender, leggy look everyone strives for. Children wear them for play, college girls in class under skirt or kilt; working girls and young matrons buy them for lounging...
...laughed heartily), Press Secretary (and onetime New York Timesman) Hagerty took it as a personal affront, bawled out the Herald Tribune by telephone, barred Columnist Buchwald from all future briefings. Said he later: "I was so mad I could cry. The President read it and laughed. This made me madder. The President said: 'Simmer down, Jim, simmer down.' " Instead, the upsimmering Hagerty swore that he would "get even with the Trib." After calling his press conference half an hour early, he primly informed newsmen-among them Buchwald-that the Buchwald column "at no time" resembled "what I ever...
...explosion's full impact. Under the impact, farm prices sagged. With net farm income sliding from $13.3 billion in 1953 to $11.6 billion in 1956, U.S. farmers were in no mood for experiments with lower price supports, and Congress was in no mood to make the farmers any madder. So Benson found Congress unwilling to rise very far above politics...