Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...British government report on "mad-cow disease" raises questions about the safety of British beef...
DIED. ERNEST GOLD, 77, Vienna-born Oscar-winning composer who wrote scores for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Exodus, among other films; of a stroke; in Santa Monica, Calif. Gold broke into Hollywood in the mid-1940s, writing music for low-budget movies for Columbia Pictures...
...book--the hot pursuit of glory, the race against the chemist Linus Pauling for the Nobel Prize that DNA would surely bring--got bad reviews from the (relatively) genteel Crick. He didn't recall anyone mentioning a Nobel Prize. "My impression was that we were just, you know, mad keen to solve the problem," he later said. But whatever their aims, Watson and Crick shared an attraction to DNA, and when they wound up in the same University of Cambridge lab, they bonded...
Harvard has the best penalty kill in the ECAC at 93.4 percent. The Crimson mad-down unit has given up 10 goals this season, but has scored nine shorthanded goals...
...large-scale late-night revelry: the Currier 10-man or the shuttle. But on fateful February 1st, when Temple Bar anointed its first patrons, the shadows of social ostracism were lifted--and in its place a hush fell over the scenic quadrangle. And hush was followed by a mad rush. In a dramatic reenactment, students poured out of their beer can-littered rooms and sprinted towards the redemption of a new temple, tearing up their shuttle schedules--clouds of red and green confetti fluttering in their wake...