Word: madding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...precise moment that the three networks began airing their evening newscasts last Monday, U.S. attack planes were roaring toward their five Libyan targets. Out of the black Mediterranean night they came, racing through orange cones of frantic antiaircraft fire to punish the man Ronald Reagan calls the "mad dog of the Middle East." As Americans, transfixed at their television sets, listened to the muffled rattle and thump of the assault filtering over the phone lines of network correspondents holed up in a Tripoli hotel, the U.S. attackers delivered their lethal cargo of laser-directed bombs. As quickly as they...
...West Berlin disco that left an American serviceman and a Turkish woman dead. Then the Pentagon cryptically noted that the Sixth Fleet, which had scattered after the Gulf of Sidra battle, was steaming back toward Libya. Almost simultaneously, President Reagan at his Wednesday-night news conference called Gaddafi "this mad dog of the Middle East" and proclaimed that the U.S. would "respond" whenever the perpetrator of a specific terrorist act could be identified. Why had the U.S. once again targeted Gaddafi? Of all the evils and perils in the world, there is none that galls Reagan more than terrorism...
...Local restaurants are featuring meals from the plan's menu; grocery stores are posting signs touting approved fruits, vegetables and other foods. So popular has the plan become that an estimated 70,000 residents, about 10% of the city's population, are now rotating feverishly, caught up in a mad whirl to "Melt-a-Million" pounds collectively by mid-May. They are hoping to create a whole new category for the Guinness Book of World Records...
...sitted down and, like, all my buddies were talkin real loud and fast, like they were excited or mad or somethin. "Did you see the article `Pointing the Big Finger' in the Crimson?" someone asked me. Great, another story about are great hockey season...
...sluggin back the brews right and my fat roommates killin me tonite and he tells me the guy who wrote the story is mad because he thinks athletes get special attention at Byerly Hall. Hey that's great, I think, because I never knew that Byerly Hall was an athletic facility. Hey we can go their and work out because they'll treat us real good and give us special attention...