Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...total accord with the Soviet press denouncement of Khrushchev as "hairbrained," Adam B. Ulam, professor of Government, surmised that the Communist Central Committee acted to block another "mad improvisation" which Khrushchev was planning for the near future. Otherwise, Ulam said, the Soviets would have held their tempers a few more years until Khrushchev was forced by age to step down...
...initial idea for the play could have been mouthed by a New York cab driver: Those atomic scientists are crazy, man; they belong in a nut house. Mad Scientist No. 1 (Hume Cronyn) believes he is Sir Isaac Newton. Mad Scientist No. 2 (George Voskovec) thinks he is Albert Einstein. Mad Scientist No. 3 (Robert Shaw) hears the voice of King Solomon, and occasionally imagines that he is Solomon...
...Show to Remember. Tokyo was scheduled for the 1940 Olympics, but the games were canceled because of the war. Now, at a cost of $2 billion, the sports-mad Japanese were determined to make up for it-with a show the world would never forget. Flags honoring 94 nations flew everywhere in Tokyo-7,000 of them, tended by 10,000 uniformed boy scouts. Hotels were jammed with 130,000 foreign tourists hard put to take in all the shrines, nightclubs and kabuki shows. Special police squad cars manned by a corps of smiling interpreters cruised the city searching...
...mad sprint by the Crimson's Charles Redman in an attempt to displace Brown's fifth runner, Jim Ackroyd, and give Harvard a tie, failed by a scant...
...sent to school, where he found playmates. World War I had started, and its cold realities made his adventure fantasies seem suddenly childish. For several years he was relatively happy. Yet it was too late, for his vocation had already been imposed on him: "the mad enterprise of writing in order to be forgiven for my existence...