Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist who would forever be his submissive darling. He had expected her to scorn the world that scorned him and reject the materialism of a capitalist society." Instead, she jeered at all his failures and paid him the ultimate insult of leaving him. Somewhat melodramatically, Manchester pictures Oswald "going mad" while watching a flickering TV set the night before the murder. The author never wavers in his conviction that Oswald acted alone and was clearly demented...
Died. General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, 84, U.S. Marine, who became known as "the father of modern amphibious warfare" when he commanded the Fleet Marine Force in the Pacific during World War II; of a heart attack; in San Diego, Calif. A stocky, sulphurous, onetime Alabama lawyer, Smith personally led the bloody Marine assaults on Tarawa, Saipan and Iwo Jima, and dismissed criticism of heavy casualty rates (3,200 casualties at Tarawa alone) with "Gentlemen, it was our will...
...Gases. Back with père et maman in Paris, young Ferdinand's grotesque adventures continue in mad spate. Father is a clerk, a monster of suspicion and self-pity; Mother deals in junk, which she tries to sell as antiques. They are failures, and Ferdinand thrashes them frightfully for it. He throws himself on the mercies of an uncle, who is a friend of Courtial Des Pereires, a prince of crackpots...
...some vast garbage dump; yet he leaves him with the belief that the mutilated body of someone of great value lies buried in the stinking trash. In English, there has been no one like him since Swift, and in French, there has been no one like him at all. Mad doctors both-in their different ways. Only moral simpletons who have not understood that pity is the cruel emotion will fail to grasp the root of the rage of either...
Died. Henry F. Schricker, 83, Indiana Democratic politician, the only man to serve two terms (1941-45 and 1949-53) as his state's Governor, the genial backslapping son of an immigrant Bavarian storekeeper who was known as "the man who never made anyone mad," nevertheless had enough iron to clean up his state's inefficient tax-collection and welfare systems; of a heart attack; in Knox...