Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mech in a loud voice even after he told me it wasn't his plane. Upon entering Operations, I pointed my finger at Colonel Blank, and told him I flew back alone with no instruments and never should have arrived by the books. . . . I sure was mad and I felt as though I had to tell somebody. I had a hard time keeping myself from talking long and loud. After I gave my report to Intelligence, I had a good stiff drink and went to bed. . . . I was surprised to get a good night's sleep...
...ships snake about as nimbly as Fred Astaire. swaying from side to side with rhythmic ebullience. The Japs, boiling mad, fail to attack the troop-laden transports, concentrate instead on the escorts...
...Casualties. The big difference about Strike IV was" that this time almost nobody was mad at John Lewis. Press and public, either tired of the whole mess, or more sympathetic to the miners, or disgusted with Administration ineptitude, raised no cry. Most of the press blamed the Administration. WLB, badly beaten and obviously worn down, okayed the new contract by an 11-to-1 vote. The dissenter: embattled, unshakable Public Member Wayne Lyman Morse, a literal man who insisted on holding the line-even after the President was abandoning the hold-the-line policy. Prophesied Wayne Morse: the whole fight...
...mules were Freudians they would be kicking mad. They always have parents, rarely have offspring. Because they are the hybrid, infertile offspring of a mare and a jackass, race suicide is as involuntary among mules as old-fashioned families among rabbits. When Nickolaas Jecobus Vermaak, of Natal, South Africa, announced recently that his mare mule had thrown a "colt" sired by a stallion, neighboring farmers smiled incredulously. But he had rightly trusted his mule-sense. Mule-wise Dr. John Quinlan dashed over from the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, confirmed his guess...
Exactly four men showed up for Armistice Day practice yesterday, when there was no lab excuse, and Coaches Jack MacDonald and Polly Guyda are both slightly mad about it, as the winless record of the A team shows no cause for practice celebrations. The defalcations of some of the B team, however, can be partly excused, for the boys did themselves right proud Saturday...