Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mary, and the women who fell in love with him. "It's still unclear to me," wrote a reader from Foggia, "to what extent Mussolini imposed himself on Italians and to what extent he was called. Because there was once a time when we were all a bit mad." Insisted Novelist Giovanni Artieri: "Mussolini gave Italians the awareness of belonging to a great nation...
...many out-of-the-way towns, military investigations and repression go on, and some 1,500 political prisoners still languish in Brazilian jails. Yet sudden, unexplained arrests are tapering off; the linha dura is quite visibly knuckling under to Castello Branco. "Sure I'm mad as hell," snapped one frustrated colonel last week. "But the Old Man is right. At least Arraes will think twice now before he tries anything else." And so, it seemed clear, would the linha dura...
...Washington started out feeling kindly toward their visitors; by the time they got mad, they were trailing 2-0. They got quite mad. The final score was 18-6, and the two teams adjourned to the clubhouse to spike a keg of beer...
Elisa Grey de Abalos, 94, widow of a prominent Chilean politician, is mad. The Santiago mansion over which she reigns is rotting. Her housekeepers get drunk. Her nursemaid turns thief, gets pregnant. And her only living relative, Grandson Don Andres, 54, is a cultured celibate who has made a career of reading French history and collecting walking sticks. To top it off, Elisa has a vocabulary astonishingly rich in four-letter words and an imagination so diabolical that most of her maids flee in horror. For all her madness, though, the old girl has a no-nonsense way of getting...
...just weren't so scathing, Izzy, if you only tempered your stuff a little. If you stopped always making your subscribers so damn mad. . ." But Stone isn't interested. He considers getting your readers mad at you part of the secret of good journalism. He has no advertisers to offend and doesn't worry about his opponents to the right. Instead, he sees himself supplying ammunition to men who feel very like he does, covering the hotter subjects--the stories "safe" liberals file away, picking up the pieces on the edges, ones that don't fit into into the Establishment...