Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show that small craft of a half-dozen nations, totaling 495,000 h.p., operated last year with cycloidal propellers manufactured in Germany. He believes that German torpedo boats now fighting in the English Channel are equipped with cycloidals, and he wishes they weren't because he is a rabid Hitler-hater. But he observed last week that there is still time for the U. S. to use cycloidal propulsion for airplanes. Two cycloidals mounted on either side of the fuselage with blades projecting laterally would make possible a wingless, almost noiseless plane capable of short landings and take-offs...
...advertisements, home-grown editorials, all shrieking "We Want Willkie!" The delegates couldn't understand it. The big bear-man's face, life, family swiftly became oppressively familiar. Most of the delegates wanted to be let alone, to go about their ancient business in the ancient way. But rabid strangers, unlike any political heelers they had ever seen, surrounded them on the street, gripped their lapels, argued bitterly, demanded (not begged) their vote for this man Willkie. In this urgent, crusading atmosphere the delegates were increasingly uncomfortable. They could no longer read the newspapers with any enjoyment...
Army in 1925 for accusing the high command of incompetence, were dug up by Scripps-Howard Reporter Ruth Finney: "In future wars it will be too late to organize an air force after the contest begins." ¶ In Congress, rabid Isolationist Hamilton Fish stunned the House by voicing a solemn hope for non-partisan harmony in the crisis, a hope that "at least for the time being no effort will be made to criticize the Administration. . . ." ¶The American Red Cross ordered 50 more air-conditioned ambulances, 100 auxiliary hospital trucks, ten field hospitals, quantities of surgical instruments; drove...
Wendell Willkie, "dark horse" of the Republican party has finally struck root in Harvard with the establishment of a Willkie-for-President movement centering in Grays Hall under the direction of David Place '43, rabid supporter of the midwest utility king...
...Indiana University: the National Collegiate A. A. basketball tournament; defeating the University of Kansas, another basketball hotbed, in the final, 60-10-42; before 10,000 rabid rooters in the Municipal Auditorium; at Kansas City. Same night, at Indianapolis, 15,000 fans saw Hammond Tech, survivors of a field of 775 high-school teams, win the Indiana State high-school championship, a sport event for which Hoosiers would not trade tickets for the World Series, the Rose Bowl or the Kentucky Derby...