Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deplores the "slick, smooth operation of easing the corpse out, but saying no to weeping and wailing and expressing grief and loneliness. What effect does this have on us psychologically? It may mean that we have to mourn covertly, by subterfuge-perhaps in various degrees of depression, perhaps in mad flights of activity, perhaps in booze." In his latest book, Death, Grief and Mourning, Anthropologist Gorer warns that abandonment of the traditional forms of mourning results in "callousness, irrational preoccupation with and fear of death, and vandalism...
...consider ways of selling part of the Government's huge aluminum stockpile. Though the notice said nothing about prices, the New York Times, acting on information from the Administration, headlined a story linking the two events. It quoted "Administration sources" as saying that Lyndon Johnson was "sputtering mad," intimated that the surplus sale-which presumably would weaken aluminum prices-was a reprisal against the industry for its price hike...
...infallible foot of Don "Mad Dog" Graham led the CRIMSON touch football team to a 22.2 victory over the Daily Princetonian Saturday...
Willie is mad, and in this eerily brilliant little novel the reader is invited to dive down and down into the lurid whirlpool of his aberration and there circle with the weird debris of Willie until he knows in every bone of his being how it feels to be insane...
...mad as hell," Morgan recalls. "I made a speech I'd written that morning. When I got through, everyone applauded, and someone moved to admit a Negro to membership in the club. Like everything else in Birmingham, it died for want of a second...