Word: madding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know exactly what I said at the half, but I didn't get mad at them" she said. "I mainly told them they had to want it individually, that they had to give it their all and forget about everything that had happened. We just had to go out there and really...
...decline of the New York press continues apace. Last year saw the invasion of sensation-mongoring marsupial Rupert Murdoch; it has taken the money-mad Presslord Erom Down Under less than a year to transform the New York Post fro a blue-collar version of the New York Times into a frighteningly creditable imitation of the New York Daily News...
...improve matters, Carter must also come to some tough conclusions and realizations about himself. He must disappoint friends, even fire them if necessary. He must stonewall critics at times, reserve his power and prestige for issues that matter-not for Bert Lance. He must get mad at the right people at the right time...
...more than 20 years, Wiesenthal has been stalking Dr. Josef Mengele, the SS physician, known as the Angel of Death, who sent millions to the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau and killed thousands more in mad genetic experiments. Wiesenthal has long suspected-as have others-that Mengele was hiding in Paraguay. Despite firm denials from the Asunción government, Wiesenthal believes that Mengele is now living in the village of San Antonio, in a remote area southeast of the Paraguayan capital. But the evil physician of Auschwitz, frustratingly, remains beyond his reach...
...into contemporary literature. In Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy, he was the model for The Doctor who taunted God to punish him for his killings at Auschwitz. He is the inspiration for the drill-wielding Nazi named Szell in William Goldman's Marathon Man, and the mad doctor who sought to re-create a batch of little Hitlers in Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil...