Word: mads
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...even before Nancy's books became international hits, the sisters were notorious; the "Mad, Mad Mitfords," the press loved to call them. Diana, a spectacular beauty, married an heir to the Guinness fortune but then jettisoned him to take up with Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of Britain's fascist party, which, Lovell says, made her "arguably the most hated woman in England." Just as scandalous was Unity, a close friend of Adolf Hitler's and so worshipfully devoted to him that she shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany (she survived with some brain damage; Hitler...
Lovell, who is the sort of writer who refers to "hare coursing" without elucidation and uses expressions like "mad keen," is perhaps too embedded in the Mitfords' world to provide the perfect introduction for contemporary American readers. Nevertheless, books containing such choice lines as Muv's lament, "Oh, why do all my daughters fall for dictators?" are few indeed, and we must cherish every one of them...
Jennifer Connelly describes the woman she plays in A Beautiful Mind--Alicia, the wife of the brilliant, mad mathematician John Nash--as "forthright, gutsy, irreverent, a bit of a black sheep." Those qualities are certainly present in Connelly's luminous performance, but perhaps out of modesty, the actress doesn't mention her own shining, salient characteristic, which is intelligence of a particularly watchful kind...
...panic over bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as "mad cow" disease, spread all the way to Japan last year, where a handful of cases caused beef sales to plummet. The good news was that researchers using a mathematical model estimated that the brain-wasting BSE variant in humans may max out at 100 cases per year in Britain, ground zero for mad cow, and kill no more than a few thousand people in the coming decade. Feel any better...
...mad scramble ensued, and Yale defenseman Greg Boucher was forced to cover the puck in the crease with 6:45 to play in the period. Boucher’s infraction drew a whistle from referee Jack Dunn, who awarded Moore with a solo...