Word: rabid
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Considering the extraordinary shifts and shakeups in last week's draft, almost any team could win it all-even the newly revamped Redskins. That at least was the belief of one rabid Washington fan. After sending a new budget to Congress last week with predictions of a strong economic gain, Richard Nixon sent another prediction to Coach Allen. Read the President's telegram: "Great trade. I am betting on the Skins for the championship...
Matthew's ordeal began last Oct. 10, when a bat flew into his bedroom and bit the sleeping child on the thumb. Determining from tests that the bat was rabid, doctors began almost immediately to administer vaccine made from rabies virus grown in duck embryos and then killed. For 15 days, they injected massive doses of the serum into the muscles of Matthew's abdomen, a painful prophylaxis that usually prevents the disease if begun early enough. This time, the effort failed. By the end of October, Matthew complained of muscular stiffness and dizziness; by early November...
...father of existentialism and refuser of the Nobel Prize explains that he did not accept the editorship so much "to defend La Cause du Peuple as to defend the liberty of the press." He does not align himself with the rabid left-wing advice blazed in La Cause's headlines to "Enlist everybody in the Guerrillas." Yet the paper does report with surprising accuracy riots, demonstrations and strikes. By becoming editor, he hoped to defend freedom of expression by following in his predecessors' footsteps and getting arrested. Indignant that the French government refuses to seize him, Sartre says...
...Wyoming, where Conservatives of the true mold had given their votes to the Republicans in 1968, the Administration bootlickers met ignominious defeat. And in California, a topsy-turvy state where currents and trends are so many and so strong, where San Jose had whipped the reactionary conservatives into their rabid finest, John Tunney beat George Murphy and Ronald Reagan won a far less than landslide victory...
...Seabury Ford, Republican Party chairman of Portage County, where the grand jury met, and one of three special prosecutors in the case. His words provided substantial evidence for the charge by many at the university that the grand jury indictments and its sweeping condemnation of campus life reflected rabid political views...