Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Millions of U.S. citizens seemed to find the whole business highly satisfying. Housewives complained vociferously, but brought home overpriced hamburger as proudly as if they had the Hope Diamond tied up in a pickle carton. There were other millions who got mad, concluded 1) that they were living in an immoral age; 2) that somebody was to blame; and 3) that they were rapidly going broke. But if they got ugly with the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker they ended up eating eggplant. To get the goods you had to smile, smile, smile...
Grandma Medsker was not the only one who was ruffled by a shortage of long skirts. Last week thousands of hobbled U.S. dress manufacturers and retailers were hopping mad too. They stood to lose millions of dollars...
...With his usual devastating honesty, Stendhal recorded in his autobiography (The Life of Henri Brulard) that he had loved his mother "with a mad passion"-"as criminal as possible" and indistinguishable from the love he felt for his mistresses in later years. His hatred of his chief rival was so violent that even in middle age he generally referred to his unfortunate father as "the bastard...
...disagreeable episode was only the first of several. Gruber's own party colleagues were annoyed with him for taking too much of the limelight in Paris. Parliamentary committees were mad at him for failure to report home before taking .Austria's first major foreign policy decision. When he faced Parliament last week, the delegates did not exactly spit on him, but it was a close-thing. Gruber managed to keep his job by the skin of his teeth...
...their boredom was a good sign. It meant that nobody was mad at anybody else-something rare in international finance. The British, who were shoved around by the U.S. at the Savannah conference (TIME, April 1) until they could barely see straight, actually went home happy...