Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIRST DAY OF FRIDAY, by Honor Tracy. Although this light satire about an impoverished Irish vicar does not quite make it down the author's Straight and Narrow Path, it is still mad enough to make good reading...
...political prominence. Five years ago, after sharp-tongued Amintore Fanfani quit in a huff as Christian Democratic leader-in a dispute over his then still heavily opposed plans for an opening to the left-party elders looked for a replacement. He had to be a man nobody was mad at, and Moro filled the bill. Although Fanfani later became Premier for more than two years, Moro stayed on as the party's chief strategist. No less vigorous than Fanfani in his advocacy of the center-left alliance, Moro at the same time was more militantly anti-Communist than Fanfani...
...industry attracted to the state, a tourist development agency set up, a commission appointed to study higher education problems. Texas minority groups have deplored his stand against the public-accommodations section of the Administration's civil rights bill. Political trouble looms in his own party, where fighting-mad liberal Democrats cry that Connally, with Johnson's blessing, has frequently snubbed them...
...Duke Max lived to see the opera house rebuilt, and by the time his grandson, mad King Ludwig, was on the Bavarian throne, productions there had reached such a pitch of grandeur that the world premiere of Tristan und Isolde was largely responsible for Prussia's defeat of the Royal Bavarian Army in 1866; after the opera, there was no money left for the guns. The defeated Ludwig, bewitched by Wagner, staged three more premieres before he succumbed to a paranoid fear of crowds that kept him away from opening nights. "Each time I enter my box," he said...
...monsters are mad at stick-in-the-mud professors who lecture only three hours a week and repeat themselves year after year, at booksellers who continually raise prices, at the bureaucracy that red-tapes university expansion...