Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knee Flexing. His timing was, of course, superb, since nearly everyone was mad at him. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson bluntly told the council that "no nation, however great, can think in terms of going it alone, without allies and without regard for world opinion." Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak was just as pointed, warning that "whatever makes nations retire within themselves, out of a somewhat old-fashioned pride, is out of date and will ultimately prove illusory." Even before the meeting opened, Ludwig Erhard in a speech relayed via Early Bird to the U.S. but meant in part...
...angelic student. He was once thrashed for stamping on a board to splash muddy water on girls at the outdoor fountain. He got into a fistfight when a boy broke up his marble game, found solace in his teacher's judgment that he had a right to get mad...
...mad! He is insane! He has lost his senses!" thundered the elephantine Indian, who was trying to hide his tremendous bulk behind one of the animal statues...
...Fascist regime came more apparently to the surface, I felt ashamed, bitter and miserable. The pride in being an Italian stayed with me because there were men like De Gasperi, Pope Pius and Pope John, who reminded me that there is a time when a country can go mad, and a time when it can reach the highest degree of greatness...
...Bible, and a copy of Pilgrim's Progress, he set out barefoot for America. He struck due north through Tanganyika, Uganda, the Sudan. Some days he walked 50 miles, living mostly on bananas and peanuts. After four months his feet were a mass of blisters. "I am mad," he muttered. But his shirt said I WILL TRY. For consolation he read Pilgrim's Progress...