Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then I went mad, and I thought 'I've got to rip it.' I ripped it and ripped...
...petroleum technologist than catalytic-cracking expert Eugene Houdry. The rubbermen were still human enough to be glad to find an excuse in Mr. Houdry's steel figures, which appeared to be as high or higher than those for most of the program already under way. Mr. Houdry was mad enough to vent his spleen all over the place. But the important point is that, even six weeks ago a new process from a less eminent scientist than Eugene Houdry would have stopped the whole synthetic program in its tracks until it was investigated. Now the die is cast...
...Guards swept through the barricaded doors. By the time the final echoes of that historic assault had died, the last vestiges of Russia's old order had (in the Bolshevik phrase) been thrown on "the garbage heap of history." Russia of the Tsars, of Byzantine ritual, of mad monks and Cossack whips, Russia of fatalistic chaos and fatalistic inaction, was now to be kneaded with the butts of rifles into the Russia of the proletariat, of modern industry, of determined socialistic dictatorship. The time was November 1917, Year One of the Russian Revolution...
...people of Alaska were mad as hornets at strict Army censorship. Pending further enlightenment, however, it was well for hotheads not to get too hot. Perhaps the U.S. forces knew what the Japs were doing in the Aleutians, and did not want the Japs to know that they knew...
...news in Henderson's mad scene was not his wisecracks, but the clear revelation that the core of price control from now on lies in subsidies...