Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both clubs were ready to have at each other again, with the green particularly fired for the renewal. The seven days before the game were designated as "Fight Week" in Hanover. When Saturday rolled around, 2,300 rabid undergraduates, alumni, and townspeople stormed into Cambridge only to see their boys go down to a 12 to 3 defeat...
...Harvard Young Democratic Club has had a rather unhappy history. In 1948, for example, club members, after endorsing the Democratic slate, discovered that their president was a rabid Dewey supporter. Only after much bitterness and counter-charging was the Deweyite impeached. The HYDC quietly died following election day, and remained buried until last spring when some Democrats resurrected...
...Minnesota and New Hampshire primaries and the death of King George VI. More frequently, however, the leading subjects of conversation are almost as numerous as the reports-ranging from a siege of virus influenza in Los Angeles to the traffic death rate in Wichita and a drive to eliminate rabid foxes in Pennsylvania. And even during those weeks that are dominated by a single subject, other topics compete for conversational honors...
...Lands, and Charles Robberts Swart, 58, Minister of Justice. Strydom, onetime Transvaal ostrich farmer, has one consuming ambition: to become the first president of an Afrikaner republic wh:ch is outside the British Commonwealth. "Britain," he says, "stands for equal rights for everyone, irrespective of color or smell." A rabid racialist, he runs thq National Party machine...
...Dallas (pop. 1,685), a woman died after being bitten by a rabid fox. All over a 19-county area, sick and crazy foxes have been seen charging out oi the woods, snapping wildly. In Whitemarsh township, a woman beat one off with a handbag. Near Devon, a boy blew a hawk-call and was charged by three of the beasts. Within the city limits of Philadelphia itself, a rabid fox was killed after it attacked three people...