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Word: madmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tale of the Rabbi that refused to listen to Rosenberg/Vrba's report is not the tale of a Zionist suppressing a warning of doom. A Rabbi is not to be confused with a Zionist. Many people were disbelieved in a similar fashion, regarded as madmen for their ravings of such barbarity. It is not difficult to understand, even now, why this might be so. By the time the Jews began to realize the seriousness of the situation, it was too late. They were all neatly rounded up in ghettoes from which escape was not exactly an easy feat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON COLLABORATION | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...shoulder and asking him if he would be interested in mere cash. These were gods and they were playing in the big leagues. The AFL could buy some rookies, but what made it stand out were the porous pass defenses, jetburner receivers, and well... flakes. You know. Madmen. The unforeseeable. The untamed. The masters of errata...

Author: By Tim Carlson, | Title: Light Whitening | 5/9/1974 | See Source »

...blinding sheet of snow. The seas are pounding in 15-ft. waves, and all sensible fishermen have long since headed for port. But here, in the glare of arc lamps, heavily clothed figures are wrestling with craneloads of drill casings, dancing about on the slippery, freezing deck like madmen. No need to shout here: the screaming wind and throbbing drill machinery make conversation next to impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Probing the Last Frontier | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

Cornell is another story completely. Despite a 7-7 tie with Lehigh, the Big Red has credentials equally impressive as those of Harvard. And more significantly the Ithaca madmen have a defense...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 10/20/1973 | See Source »

...believe that the safety of the country is more important than the methods used to scare out the malcontents, subversives, miscreants and madmen. Exposing shenanigans, militants, self-servers and pie-in-the-skyers must be done, no matter how or by whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 25, 1973 | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

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