Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marketplace.' " So said Ford Edsel Division General Sales Manager J. C. Doyle last week, commenting on the curious psychology of businessmen and the U.S. public about the boom. Instead of optimism, the greatest economic advance in history has often produced the opposite effect: a fretful, unreasoning pessimism. Like rabid Mickey Mantle fans, the U.S. has become so used to herculean feats that it expects a home run every turn at bat. A mere brace of singles-or merely excellent business-is no longer enough...
...past few years Harvard fans had shown great reluctance to see a basketball game. The exhibition of play was such as to disappoint and even antagonize the most rabid court followers...
...than 140 colleges were bidding for his services. Still far from his prime, Wilt is just too big for most opponents. Ever since The Stilt arrived in Kansas, the university field house has been sold out for almost every game. Chancellor Franklin Murphy goes into weekend seclusion to avoid rabid fans "prepared to trade their honor for two seats." Even if Wilt Chamberlain never achieves his tremendous promise, he will easily earn the trust fund that wealthy Kansas alumni are rumored to have put aside as his graduation present...
This year's freshman class has staged perhaps the most interesting Jubilee Committee campaigns in recent years. Climaxing their activities with two rallies and one near-riot Tuesday, three bogus candidates and their rabid supporters have spent an estimated $100 and countless hours in outdoing twenty-odd legitimate campaigners...
...left glutear muscle ..." The producers may also have trouble with some of the animal actors (including an egg-laying rooster) called for in Joyce's script. Sample stage direction: The bulldog growls, his scruff standing, a gobbet of pig's knuckle between his molars through which rabid scums pit tie dribbles. ··· More than 1,000 Social Registerites and hangers-on clanked, rustled and jangled into Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to feel real regal at the annual Imperial Ball, sponsored for charity by Chrysler...