Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friend Browder's desk, reporters noted a traveling chess board. Said he chattily: "I like to wrestle with chess problems." This was in the best Communist tradition (Marx, Lenin and Trotsky had all been rabid chess strategists); but Communism's most perplexing chess problem was still Earl himself...
Will UNO Work? The onetime rabid isolationist reaffirmed his faith in a United Nations: "I do not share the melancholy pessimism heard in some quarters." Some phases of the London record, of course, were disappointing: "I confess that in this first meeting of the United Nations I missed the uplifting and sustaining zeal for a great, crusading, moral cause which seemed to imbue the earlier Charter sessions at San Francisco." He had sensed "a tendency to relapse into power politics ... to use the United Nations as a self-serving tribune rather than as a tribunal...
Besides his plain talk, the Russians will find many things about Beedle Smith to interest them. Like most of their top leaders, he is a self-made man-he rose from private, never went to the Military Academy or to college. Like many a Russian, he is a rabid chess player. Like a few quiet Russians, he is a Roman Catholic...
...does not smoke, prefers milk to whiskey, tries to be in bed by 8 p.m., cannot understand why there is no horse-steak oh U.S. menus. On his one nightclub excursion, he got a satisfying eyeful of American girls, cautiously explained: "It does not harm to look, no?" A rabid jazz fan, he keeps his hotel-room radio going steadily for entertainment, sings above it his current favorite-"The Hatchayson, Topeka and the Santa...
Responding to the exhortations of some 1600 rabid rooters who overflowed Cousens Gymnasium, the Tufts basketball team came perilously close to defeating the Crimson Saturday night, as they held the once-defeated Stahlmen to a hard-earned 67 to 65 victory...