Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese were as mad as little boys who had been denied sticks of bubble gum. They had hoped to get the strategic French islands of the Pacific-especially New Caledonia, which might soon prove to be a vital base in the flanking of Australia-as easily as they had got Vichyated French Indo-China. But Free France, in the person of an admiral who is also a friar, denied them that pleasure last week...
Matthew Kuykendall landed with a bullet crease in his forehead, oil from a smashed feed line on his flying suit. Said he: "Now I'm really mad." Squadron Leader John Newkirk, who had eight Japs to his credit by last week, radioed his wife in Scarsdale, N.Y. : "There were not enough of them to keep us busy...
Only time in history before World War II that U.S. air, army and naval forces served under a unified command was on the North Carolina shore maneuvers last July, when Major General Holland McTyeire ("Howlin' Mad") Smith of the Marines commanded task forces of the Marines and the Army under the over-all supervision of Admiral Ernest Joseph King...
...Dartmouth press release says that "in the words of the average Dartmouth basketball followers--no more rabid sports fans exist anywhere in the nation--it should produce something extra special in the world of basketball when a Dartmouth net team that is mad clear through goes into action...
...troops at the rail paid scant attention; they were in no mood for music and speeches. To welcoming Britons who had expected U.S. capers, a hoary sergeant major explained: "We're just getting mad. We'll wipe...