Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. These touching letters follow the novelist from the peak of precocious success in the '20s to the slough of final despond in the '30s, when he watched his wife go mad and saw his best work scorned...
...American invention," says Erhard today, and in a sense he is. By 1948, partly because of his anti-Nazi record, he was chosen by the American Occupation authorities to be economic administrator of the combined U.S. and British zones. The professor sounded visionary, if not slightly mad, to visitors who heard him advocate the end of ra tioning and other controls at a time when Germany was in rubble and people lived on fewer than 2,000 calories...
...drive for next year's Repub lican presidential nomination, Barry Goldwater has been badly bothered by the widespread report (true) that Senior Republican Dwight Eisenhower was mad at him, and the notion (un true) that Ike would actively oppose his candidacy...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara recently advised President Kennedy to demand the resignation of Navy Secretary Fred Korth. At 7:30 o'clock on the morning of Oct. 1 1, Korth had breakfast with McNamara, returned to his office, paced back and forth, told an aide he was "mad enough to resign." At 4:30 p.m., Korth was in the White House, resignation in hand. Last week the White House made it public-but did not reveal that Korth had, in fact, been fired...
...Timbers. The figure in the background who dominated them all was Washington. As President under the new Constitution, he used the strengthened powers of the national government to prevent war with Britain while the settlements grew, to negotiate the eventual British evacuation of the lakes posts, and to appoint "Mad Anthony" Wayne to command a federal army to take the field against the Indians...