Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...genius for self-destruction." The mild applause at speech's end had an ironic ring, since Peabody had just angered many of the legislature's top Democrats by recklessly urging the dumping of veteran Democratic House Speaker John Thompson. The Democratic-controlled House re-elected Thompson, seemed mad enough to mutilate Peabody's programs...
...this confused and silly business is playable, it would take a strong and versatile actor to do it. Peter O'Toole is none such: his unvarying facade of quivering neurasthenia-cum-whimsy has less charisma than Ian Carmichael. He is that best of soporifics, up interestingly mad. Shame on the British Army forever drafting the poor thing...
...those poor kids downstairs that we are mad at," Hargis said. "They may not know what is behind them, but I do. The people we are mad at are the motley slimy Communists sitting in some hotel room in Boston or New York maneuvering all this...
...post. Unhurt, the Katangese rolled down a hill in search of cover, but his comrades thought he had been hit and opened fire. Soon U.N. positions around the city were under attack. Tshombe "agreed"' to a ceasefire, but his 20,000 men kept right on fighting. "They are mad," said a Red Cross official who saw them rampaging through a township, firing at anything that moved. "They are killing their...
That a man of Frazier's "class"-to borrow one of his favorite words-should find harbor on the Herald is as unlikely as the discovery of Lucius Beebe's byline in Mad magazine. Boston papers, the Herald included, rank among the dreariest in the land, a reputation enriched every year. One measure of Boston journalism is that the Herald hired Frazier in 1961 to replace four comic strips. No doubt the paper considered the exchange a compliment to their...