Word: madding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mad Rush...
...Forman said the health care law was enacted last year "in a mad rush" to help the Dukakis presidential campaign. He said the state should know the costs before implementing the bill...
...that of a field-goal kicker, a man whose calculations must be exactly right ("You can't even look relieved"). But he revels in the pressure and fevered pace. "Sometimes day, as opposed to night, loses significance, and also you feel like you're being washed down a mad stream somewhere. Fatigue becomes the currency with which you pay. It makes sense though. It is energy, after all, that you are looking for: buried." He recalls the mineral's origin, millions of years ago, in ancient seashores, and feels that there is a "frozen sea in me." Describing the geology...
...shoot everyone the finger," so to speak. For awhile, I adopted the strangest manner of dress, suitable for gypsy costumes in a late 1930s musical. I despised things Dallas or Southern, and I rejected bar-b-qued chicken, okra and squash souffle. My parents, I think, believed I was mad, and they wrung their hands in despair...
...very often," says Avellar. "To see the northern lights is very humbling and awe-inspiring. You realize the sun is just going about its business and making our nighttime sky glow without any trouble at all. It makes you wonder what would happen if the sun ever really got mad...