Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Irked by Solidarity's independence, Moscow issues a warning So far it was only a war of words, but it was heating up with alarming ferocity. In its harshest warning to date to Poland's Communist leaders, Moscow last week declared that an "unbridled" campaign of "rabid propaganda" against the Soviet Union had been allowed to reach "dangerous limits" with impunity. Delivered personally to Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania by Soviet Ambassador Boris Aristov, the message called on Warsaw to take "radical steps" to curb the "malicious propaganda and actions hostile toward the Soviet Union...
...plan is plainly designed to quicken the interest of fans and make turnstiles click faster. Exults Mick McHugh, a rabid Seattle Mariners fan whose team was 14% games out of first place: "It's like a guy on death row, and all of a sudden they say, 'We're gonna commute your sentence.' It's a new lease on life." Adds Manager Bill Virdon, whose Astros were mired in third place after winning their division last year: "Every city has a chance to get back into baseball fresh. And a fresh start is what everybody...
...Earth's life and thought have been revived in the English edition of Letters 1961-1968 (Eerdmans; 382 pages; $18.95). Written late in his life, the 325 letters are full of typical Barthian barbs directed at the Allies' policy of rearming the West German "empire" and "the rabid mob of anti-Communists." Among the aging theologian's enthusiasms: Mozart (Barth proposed him for beatification), American Civil War battles, and the contemporary U.S., which he visited for the first and only time at age 75 ("a fantastic affair...
...fences, and the dog would bite him.' I said, 'I thought that is what dogs were for. But if you are afraid a dog will bite somebody, then use a wolf.' I said, There is no recorded case of a wolf attacking a human being, except if it were rabid...
...chief opponent of the act is Thurmond, who has replaced Kennedy as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Once a rabid segregationist, Thurmond is now quite accommodating to the blacks who make up one-third of his constituency. He has hired blacks for his staff and helped appoint a black federal judge in his state. But he is not exactly a convert to the civil rights movement, and he wants to amend the Voting Rights Act to provide a way that states can avoid federal clearance of new election laws. If that cannot be done, then Thurmond and other Southern...