Word: madding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article begins with the premise that "Something is a bit odd about people who proclaim 'I want to help other people"' and implies that "something" is that these people are stark raving mad. In the third paragraph, for example, the author quotes one woman as saying "What still strikes me, is I'll go to a party in New York, and inevitably the craziest person there is a psychiatrist. I mean the person who is literally doing childish antisocial things, making a fool of himself and embarrassing everyone else...
...third ring, I begin to think that maybe nobody else is home after all. I make a mad dive for the phone, not wanting to have to run upstairs to turn the answering machine off when the fourth ring comes...
...therefore mad as hell at them. And in order to repay them, I decided to spend my weekly column expounding upon the absolute necessity of New England Telephone's student services, rather than urging a general boycott of the company...
...audience to sing along. In last night's rendition, the chorus of "I Shall Be Released" became a defiant cry rather than a moving affirmation, and Dylan's spitfire version of "Maggie's Farm" emphasized driving anger rather than Iyric comprehension. In other words, you knew he was mad but couldn't understand what he was saying, Only once in the hour-and-a-half long set did Dylan shed his rough edges, for the graceful acoustic ballad "Most of the Time," as he sang,"I don't even cry/ I don't compromise/ Most of the time...
...stand right next to the field; my first pair of cleats; a real blue-and-yellow uniform; and Richie Rivera, the meanest pitcher in our league. While everyone else was 10 or 11 years old, Richie was 12 and very big for his age. Once, he was so mad at himself that he hit a batter in the shoulder with a fastball so he could leave the game. That batter...