Word: madding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expectation of the book's success, though, that she feared the publisher would be mad at her. To improve sales, she bought 300 copies herself. They are still piled up in her garage...
...camera that bears his name, pulled on Harvard when he tied his contribution for the Science Center to the stipulation that the structure look like his photographic brainchild. Lem is an absurd humorist whose jokes are too big to be funny. He writes of a world gone mad. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub and The Futurological Congress are tales set in future societies that no longer know where they have come from or where they are going. Indeed, they no longer know why they exist...
...never have to be mad again...
...budget for fiscal 1978. That was bad enough, but Carter staffers failed to reach all the key figures on the Hill to inform them before the story broke. Arizona Congressman Mo Udall, who heard about the move from a reporter, called Carter's decision "zero-based budgeting gone mad." Western Governors were equally irate. Said Colorado's Governor Richard Lamm: "This is not the way to win friends and influence people in the West, particularly in a time of drought...
While world attention focused on the machinations of a mad dictator in Uganda last week, the continent's crucial contest remained the struggle between black and white in southern Africa. As guerrilla war sputtered across Rhodesia and unrest smoldered on in the black ghettos of South Africa, TIME Senior Editor John Elson spoke with the principal proprietors and policymakers of the continent's white power bastion-South African Prime Minister John Vorster and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith. Vorster received Elson with Reporter Peter Hawthorne in his 18th-floor office in the Hendrik Verwoerd Building in Cape Town...