Word: madding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young King Hussein cabled that Nasser's victories must bring "Arabism's hopeful tomorrow when our flag will fly proudly and dearly over the [Palestine] they have stolen from us." The only sour note emanated from a clandestine radio that began calling for "the ouster of the mad tyrant Nasser" and presumably sending code messages to underground agents...
...newly refurbished hideout on the Ionian isle of Corfu, Greece's King Paul and pert Queen Frederika entertained two neighbors with whom they were once not even on speaking terms. Their guests: Yugoslavia's Dictator Tito and his buxom mate Jovanka. Convoyed constantly and zealously by security-mad Greek cops, Frederika and Jovanka climbed into a tiny motorboat, Paul and Tito into another, raced each other along Corfu's waterfront. Ashore, hosts and guests buzzed about merrily in two M.G. sports cars, tops down, good will...
...ancient galleys and triremes of Rome once anchored, and at a later date Mussolini played, were gathered three unlikely bedfellows. THE MOST IMPORTANT POLITICAL CONFERENCE OF THE POSTWAR WORLD headlined Cairo's Al Ahram. "These three peace men," said the captive Egyptian press, would bring sanity to a mad world, and in this meeting of Europe, Asia and Africa would create a "Third World Force." Tito too basked in the splendor of the moment...
...begun to devour history, and one day he left his proper job for the happier one of cranking out historical novels. Quote the opening line of one of his most famous ones-"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad"-and thousands of readers now living will know that it is from Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini...
...damned nuisance," Rex agrees, "clinging to Shaw like mad. The one thing that gave me an absolutely terrible time was learning the lyrics. There's just no way of finding your way back when you blow a line; you have to keep on because the damned orchestra won't stop...