Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young (black) man. I'm a nigger. Nobody around here calls me that. If they did, I would have something. I could feel offended and get mad. Last night I was at dinner. A couple of nice guys got up and left the table, talking about the swell party "about 8." I sat there finishing my coffee. I'm a nigger...
...force was shattered by Castro's T-33 jet trainers. Offshore stood at least one U.S. aircraft carrier, and its jet fighters might have been enough, even that late, to reverse the outcome-but they remained on the sidelines. The invaders' appeals for help-"Mad Dog Four, May Day, Red Beach" -went unheeded. According to the official version, the U.S. Navy was there to defend the invasion ships in case they were discovered and attacked in international waters-it was not supposed to aid the landing...
...Horse. The IRS's efforts to grapple with tax delinquents sometimes gets the agency into comically grotesque postures. The wife of a rich Texan got mad at her husband, told the IRS that he had been finagling on his tax returns. As an informer, she got a $50,000 payment -a portion of the extra tax the Government collected. Understandably, she did not want to tell her spouse about the payoff, so she failed to report it on their joint income return. The husband found out all about it when the IRS jumped on her for tax evasion...
...almost as wacky as the Mad Hatter's outdoor tea party in Wonderland. Smack in the middle of a mud-fouled road at Pumpi, 40 miles from Secessionist Moise Tshombe's last-ditch headquarters at Kolwezi, United Nations Brigadier Reginald Noronha set up four folding tables and laid out tea, peanut-butter sandwiches, coffee and Simba beer. At 9 a.m.. right on schedule, four Katanga province officials and three representatives of the Union Miniere mining outfit roared up in two autos. ''We have come to meet you as friends," declared one, and the party...
...bitterly, but the 88th convened in a climate of sweetness and light. The Senate postponed its customary opening filibuster until after the President's State of the Union message this week. The House whisked past its Rules Committee disagreement so fast that nobody really had time to get mad. Of course, all the friendship would not last long-but while it did it was nice...