Word: rabid
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...distribution of supplies, especially gasoline, and knew that the Third could have kept advancing at times when it was halted by higher headquarters. What the reasons were was not always clear and is not entirely clear yet, and Allen does nothing in Lucky Forward to clarify matters. Even rabid Third Army veterans will probably not be satisfied with Colonel Allen's charge of simple jealousy in higher places. The Patton legend does not need to be increased by decreasing the services, the skills and the patriotism of men who worked beside or above...
...size, looks and behavior. They also show astonishing individuality. Some are round, some shaped like rods, some have tails like tadpoles. A few, almost as complicated as bacteria, which are a higher form of life, even have partial enzyme systems to help digest their food. Most viruses are rabid specialists and choosy about what they invade. Some thrive only in plants, some only in certain animals, some only in man, some only in certain tissues; e.g., the influenza virus in man can exist only in the lining of the breathing apparatus (nose, throat, lungs...
...really as bad as all that? The committee, well aware of Young's rabid animosity towards what he calls "goddamned bankers," was impressed but far from convinced. Unless other RFC dealings, which it began to investigate this week, prove to be much worse, the committee will probably recommend that RFC be allowed to live, though with drastically reduced powers...
...there a case against David Lilienthal? Thus far his principal opponents-rallying around Tennessee's Senator McKellar-had been rabid anti-New Dealers, anti-Semites, bitter foes of Government control, or men who insisted that the Atomic Energy Commission chairman should be above the suspicion they themselves had cast. Their case had been based on politics, prejudice and pork-barreling.* Last week Ohio's Senator Robert Taft thought he had other grounds for opposition...
...prophetically at the Chicago Student Conference and saw it as anything from worthless to dangerous. They feared that the conference would come up with plans for merely another violently partisan youth organization that would make much political noise and have little practical use as far as the average, non-rabid student was concerned. But the 358 delegates came into the new year with a new kind of plan, a plan that is based on the interests of students as students, and not as members of political or religious groups. Nineteen such groups had delegates present, but none made efforts...