Word: madding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prize to be won ... the presidency of the U.S.," as written in your article "May the Best Man Win" [Nov. 12], very aptly describes the mad clamoring to "get into the running" going on in our nation today. It presents an aura of a Mr. America popularity contest rather than a serious search for the most qualified candidates for our highest office. Doris N. Gage Western Springs...
EVERY DRUGSTORE in America is a small temple to narcissism, and in America nearly all women and a growing number of men (whose vanity is still under cultivation by Mad Ave) are defeated narcissists...
...position, thereby setting the scene for possible civil war. The Ayatullah Khomeini, old and ailing, does not understand modern statecraft, diplomacy or administration. Jimmy Carter does not know how to deal with him; neither does anybody else. Says a European diplomat: "What can you do when faced with a mad geriatric case?" Yet this remarkable old man, and he alone, seems to possess the power to preserve his volatile country from total anarchy?and to free the rest of the American hostages in Tehran...
...sacrificed everything, it seems, in order to take one last shot at a long-held dream: winning a place on the U.S. Olympic team as a marathoner. This is material for a comedy of obsession, the story of a man possessed by a mad and inexplicable passion...
Today, the gym is not open at all. Although the delay of the opening because of construction flaws may take up to a week or more, once the doors open the non-Quad residents will not make a mad rush to play squash, racquetball or handball. Instead they'll be out for a new game called "make a friend at the Quad...