Word: madmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fictional standards. He is a proven skullbasher: in Italy's first chaotic postwar days he tangled with the Communists in (by his own estimate) 1,300 street brawls, mowing them down with a chunk of railroad track. And he has cold nerve: when two madmen terrorized a school full of children near Milan in 1956, Tom defied the maniacs' gunfire, closed in to capture them...
...impossible to answer for the madmen of the imperialist world," said Nikita Khrushchev in a speech broadcast by Moscow radio last week. "But at the present time it seems to me there is no cloud from which thunder might crash...
Illusions of future ease were shortlived. Only madmen, the motorists soon discovered, tried to drive into Russia that summer. In Russia, what roads they found were rivers of mud; what rivers they came to were all but impassable. The hotels were primitive pestholes, thriving with insect life and always located next to the sleep-shattering din of a dance hall. They rolled into Moscow in four battered heaps, so filthy that the cheering crowds at their reception hardly recognized them as the heroes of the occasion...
...free enterprise.' The truth is that there are services that can be rendered more effectively by the people acting together. A few more eggheads in the automobile industry to supplant the blockheads who have designed our recent cars would be in our national interest. Who are the madmen who build cars so long they cannot be parked . . . and so powerful that no man dare use the horsepower available...
...between these two "uncultivated" cultures. The contest arises when a bunch of American oilmen arrive in Australia's spinifex country (so named for its tough desert grass). The Australians are astounded by the Americans' ability to set up ice-cream plants in the desert, to work like madmen for oil in a country that probably lacks it and, anyway, needs water more. The Americans, in turn, are baffled by the Australians' capacity for rum and their insistence on the right of man-state-given, if not God-given-not to work too hard...