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Word: madding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mad world all right. So much ballyhoo about the Bhutto hanging. The Pakistani judiciary established his involvement, so why all this rooftop show for Bhutto? Anyone who will deprive another of his life forfeits the right to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 7, 1979 | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

When told by Hill that she will soon have to move from posh Paris to prosaic Houston, Kellerman greets the news with a wild-eyed speechlessness that borders on the truly mad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pros at Play | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...birdie on 13. He had another bonafide chance at a birdie on the par three 17th when he hit a ripcord three-iron through the wind, ten feet from the pin. Dales then three-putted for a bogey and remarked afterwards. I couldn't even talk. I was so mad...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Linksters Trail 5 Teams In Qualifier for NCAAs | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

...just be sort of quietly going mad," Daniel W. Smith '82, who is taking six courses this semester, said yesterday...

Author: By Nancy R. Page, | Title: Reading Period Arrives; Students Under Pressure | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

Shaw's personae are the languishing leisure class engaged in social masquerade: "How are we to have any self-respect," complains the fraudulent investor, "if don't keep it up that we're better than we really are?" And to top it off, there is mad Captain Shotover endlessly traversing the stage in search of the seventh degree of concentration, leaving behind him a wake of nonsensical criticism, and them harrumphing back across the stage with still more. Yes, Heartbreak House is a madhouse--but it is England as well...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Heartbreak Hilarity | 4/27/1979 | See Source »

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