Word: madding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mirror-News, reported: "I went from Ginger Rogers' party to Jose Ferrer's party to a dinner party, and everywhere they were talking about it. My husband is on it now. He used to be very nervous, really just miserable. Now he doesn't get mad as quick or stay mad as long. He has no energy, of course." Says Milton Berle: "It's worked wonders for me. In fact, I'm thinking of changing my name to Miltown Berle...
Waitsfield (Mad River)--Good to excellent...
...bothering to get official permission, he set up a first-aid station in one of the town's back alleys. A spate of pamphlets poured from his angry pen asking, among other questions, "How many people in Partinico will hang themselves this year?" and "How many will go mad?" Dressed in a thick, white pullover sweater, he was often to be seen waiting in the local mayor's office to demand attention on some problem or other. Last year, after another hunger strike prompted by the death of a child from starvation, Dolci succeeded in wringing a promise...
...other things until at last everything comes between you and what you'd like to be, and you've lost your true self forever." The true selves of these complex people have been twisted into and out of shape by life. Edmund thinks Jamie is mad when Jamie says, "The dead part of me hopes you won't get well." He adds that maybe their father is glad that dope "has got Mama again! He wants company, he doesn't want to be the only corpse around the house...
Adam is about as adroit emotionally as he is politically. A long-legged secretary is unaccountably mad about him, but he takes to her with the ardor of a man on a diet taking yoghurt. The Eurasian girl he takes to bed turns out to be as mixed up in her political senses as she is in her veins: working as an agent for both the French and the Communists, she is eventually caught and doomed. At novel's end Adam Patch is recalled to Washington, the victim of what Author Shaplen plainly indicts as U.S. failure to pursue...