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...general requirements of a good Presidential Committee: (1) It should be called into existence for the general purpose of gaining an influential opinion on an important issue of government policy. (2) It should be composed of private citizens knowledgeable about the issue but not, if this can be avoided, rabid about it. (3) The Committee should have unlimited access to information, and it should spend enough time to do its job thoroughly. (4) It should make its findings available in some readable form to the general public, and sufficient publicity should accompany their release to ensure that they are read...
Happy, Not Mighty. Unlike most other new Asian leaders, Abdul Rahman is no rabid nationalist. He has remained on close, friendly terms with the British, has no interest in pie-in-the-sky economic schemes. His political aims are simple: "Food instead of bullets, clothing instead of uniforms, houses instead of barracks.'' His new nation has a combat army of only seven battalions and an air force so small that the pilots often have trouble finding a fourth for bridge. "My ambition is not mighty Malaysia," says Abdul Rahman, "but happy Malaysia...
Unfortunately, however, a great many people today know of the most tragic of all Southern efforts of massive resistance to forced integration. Many people now think of the University of Mississippi as an institution whose student body is dominated by rabid racists, whose administration is spineless and acquiescent when the politicians of the state start playing rough...
...more unpleasant aspects of College Hockey has not been limited to Cambridge or even the East. John Mariucci, coach of the Minnesota sextet, has said "Eastern teams have been the only ones that are doing anything for American hockey." Like Harvard, Minnesota has often refused to compete against such rabid recruiters as Michigan and Denver...
...sinister about an acorn and a cup of tea? It certainly surprised me when I discovered that an unexpected combination of the two was causing all the trouble in the Harvard Yard. Last fall, you may remember, Buildings and Grounds began its well-publicized campaign to wipe out the rabid squirrels by scattering poisoned acorns around the elm trees. The deranged squirrels, they reasoned, would overlook the incongruity and bury the nuts for future use. Then, when the Spring thaws came, the animals would dig the acorns, eat them, and expire...