Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Examples: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: "It simply doesn't work. Look at the crime rates." AMERICAN EDUCATION : "A kind of state-supported baby-sitting service." SOUTH AFRICA: "The foundation of law has been destroyed. I am reminded of the old proverb: 'Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.' " TV COMMERCIALS: "Why should an actress, no matter how beautiful or talented, know more about an icebox than my wife?" RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS: "Most of the so-called devotional material is shallow and meaningless tripe that makes me sick to my stomach." THEOLOGIANS: "Many influential theologians of our day have...
...struggle is set in the dusty barrens of the Panhandle a few years after the Civil War. An old range-runner (Wiseman), mad with grief and battles, spreads a sinister story that a dark-skinned girl (Hepburn) adopted by the long-dead father of the rancher-hero (Lancaster) is really a "red-hide whelp," a papoose the father rescued from a massacre of Kiowas. The hero asks his mother (Gish) if the tale is true. He is shattered when she says it is. Nevertheless, even though he hates Indians as only a man can whose father has been killed...
...some time before the poet's death, mercifully perhaps, D'Annunzio had been slightly mad. Mussolini and the poet's neglected widow were the chief mourners...
...pact with Hitler, Germany might never have dared start World War II. As it was, both France and Russia were littered with "unexploded bombs and shells . . . abandoned by the Hitlerians." Should German militarism rise again, France would be the first to be threatened, for "not even a mad German militarist would risk war with us." When he had finished his ten-minute airport invitation to France to join a new alliance with him, he explained to General de Gaulle: "I too can speak without a text-that will come...
Then animals ran away with the show. In a bedlam of barking, two packs of boxer dogs hurtled into the ring wearing gaily striped T shirts. Using balloons for balls, they played a frantic game of soccer that brought futebol-mad Brazilians screaming to their feet. Gosha, the Russian bear, came on for the finale to ride a bicycle, toss a few somersaults, wrestle gently with his trainer and balance ponderously on parallel bars. Then the lights went out, and Gosha steered a sputtering motorcycle around the arena by the glow of the headlight alone. As the Brazilians stamped, jumped...