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Word: madding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eggs off her chest. She threatened to sue, said Viner, but 20th Century-Fox settled out of court. The late actor Peter Lawford, a Sinatra "Rat Pack" member who had married into the Kennedy family, recalled that "one time at a party in Palm Springs he got so mad at some poor girl that he slammed her through a plate glass window. There was shattered glass and blood all over the place and the girl's arm was nearly severed . . . Frank paid her off later and the whole thing was hushed up, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Thumb in the Public Eye His Way:The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...disposed to grump and spit. "It's unfair to the schoolkids, the eight-year-olds," said Mets First Baseman Keith Hernandez, 33. "They can't stay up all night." Red Sox Manager John McNamara, a pragmatist in most things, was heard to mutter, "I suppose I'll get somebody mad by saying it, but I did notice that today was a beautiful day. I thought about what a beautiful day it would be to play baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Small Delights and a Big Chill | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...weren't mad about [not getting in] but we just thought we wanted to sing together as a group. It just started sounding better than we thought it would," Fratto said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frosh Singers Unite to Form New Group Called Callbacks | 10/31/1986 | See Source »

...technicolor brilliance of his work is so that he could see it better, because neither the coloring nor the scenes bears much resemblance to the stark cinematography in the film. If I did not know the creator's name, I might think this book was the work of some mad German Expressionist who overdosed on Van Gogh paintings and samurai movies. A really good mad German Expressionist, I should...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Of Max Headroom and Kurosawa | 10/25/1986 | See Source »

After the games they were another race altogether, devouring statistics and quotations as their fingers furiously turned facts and feelings into stories. The press box was a mad house...

Author: By Anne Gammons, | Title: View From the Box | 10/16/1986 | See Source »

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