Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard hockey team has its first of at least three chances tonight to knock off #1, the Big Red of Cornell, in an Ivy League encounter at hockey-mad Ithaca tonight. The Crimson is a heavy underdog, but no more than it was last year when it lost 7-6 in the away game and won, 5-4, at Watson Rink...
...land speculator in New Zealand and a mapmaker in England-Chichester was struck with sea fever. Though he thought "the whole prospect of the Atlantic so appalling that I can't face it," he nonetheless thrilled to "the moan of the wind in the rigging," loved drawing "deep, mad breaths" in midocean...
NOBODY is mad at monarchy these days. Britain's angry John Osborne can sneer: "My objection to the royal symbol is that it is dead; it is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay." But that was nearly a decade ago, and even Osborne has simmered down since. Antiroyalism was once such an embattled issue that even Americans-who basically adore royalty-could echo Mark Twain's dictum: "There was never a throne which did not represent a crime." But nowadays monarchy is not much of a villain. And what would astonish Mark Twain is not that...
...White Paper blackened everybody's holiday mood. Unions were upset because the government's policy for the next six months calls for generally continuing the freeze on wages. Businessmen were mad because theoretically the clampdown continues on prices as well, and the authoritative magazine Management Today has forecast that profits in 1967 will drop 12½%. Corporate chiefs cannot understand how the government expects them to increase investments while profits and consumer demand are weakening. And economists are none too happy because the policy for next year has so many discriminatory exceptions that it threatens to frustrate...
...mother-in-law's exit, the distraught son-in-law appears and explains that the old lady is mad. Her daughter died four years before, and the woman kept in the apartment is his second wife. He acts as he does to preserve the mother-in-law's illusion. No sooner has he left the room than the mother-in-law reappears to argue that her son-in-law is the mad one. Her daughter had been placed in an asylum, and when she returned, cured, the son-in-law would not acknowledge her as his wife...