Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believes that the pace of integration should be slowed down until means can be worked out to accomplish it peacefully, then I am in agreement with that." Said Faubus in satisfied self-appraisal: "You know, I suppose 90% of the people in the North think I am the most rabid segregationist in the South. The fact is that I am one of the most moderate men on the subject of any of the officials in Southern states holding comparable positions...
...from Memphis' Gore-like Reform Mayor Edmund Orgill, after rednecks blanketed rural West Tennessee with pictures of Orgill talking with Negro "friends during N.A.A.C.P. organizational meeting" (actually, he was talking to a nonpartisan civic-improvement group). Additional point for sign readers to note: victorious Segregationist Ellington and more rabid Candidate Andrew T. Taylor between them rolled up 61% of the vote in once moderate Tennessee...
...letter smuggled from Shanghai to Hong Kong. The "tumultuous" Red preaching sessions "are enough to drive one mad," he added. "The director is always present. He pounds the table, shouts, yells and screams at the stalling tactics of the assembled priests. You can't imagine how these rabid talkers force you to think, concede, admit, and at last get you on their side...
...Williams Jr. rode high and hard until this month, and then he swung the ragged blade of bigotry against the wrong people: Georgia politicians. Backing a rabid racist, Baptist Preacher W. T. Bodenhamer, to succeed Griffin in his scandal-scarred governor's chair, T. V. Williams Jr. even smeared Lieutenant Governor S. Ernest Vandiver in a headline charge that...
Naturalist Ruschi decided that the way to cope with rabid vampires was to learn everything possible about them. He had always liked vampires in a professional way ("Everybody calls me 'the bat man' "), and when bat rabies became a national problem, he turned his attention to it. He and his aides traveled thousands of miles through Brazil's back country; they studied 2,000 bat colonies, marked thousands of bats with dyes to learn their habits. They clocked the bats' flight (33 m.p.h.), and studied how bats find their victims by echolocation. Dr. Ruschi built...