Word: rabid
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...years, enthusiasts are looking forward to excellent skiing at all New England sport centers. In contrast to last year's conditions which were universally terrible, reports coming in from the mountains this year give promise of enough skiing for the rest of the year to satisfy even the most rabid enthusiasts...
...Algic, a 5,496-ton freighter owned by Joseph Patrick Kennedy's National Maritime Commission, refused to help unload cargo onto a lighter in midstream. Uruguayan longshoremen were on strike against employment of non-union labor. Inspired to a quixotic display of labor solidarity by three rabid unionists, the Algic's seamen swore they would not work with scab longshoremen until the River Plate froze solid...
...strains of his favorite march, the Badenweiler, minced his way to the speaker's stand through a lane of Storm Troopers as wave upon wave of throaty cheers thundered down the long hall. As is traditional, apple-cheeked Rudolf Hess, deputy leader, opened the Congress; Julius Streicher, rabid Jew hater, welcomed the Führer and the party members to Nurnberg, Streicher's own stamping ground. And as is traditional, Hitler did not address the first session, instead sat messiah-like on the haupttribüne while rasping-voiced Adolf Wagner, Munich Nazi leader, read the Fuhrer...
...their first novel was scheduled to appear. Unfortunately it was also the day Louis Napoleon Bonaparte had chosen for the coup d'etat that made him Napoleon III, so the novel was lost in the political shuffle. In their fight for fame the brothers encountered even graver difficulties. Rabid anti-romantics, they wrote such painstakingly realistic novels that old-line critics whooped "sculptured slime . . . literature of putrescence." To younger men, such as Emile Zola, the Goncourts were prophetic pioneers. Gradually they built up a literary circle- Gautier, Sainte-Beuve, Flaubert, Renan, Taine-who used to meet fortnightly to dine...
...Secretary of State for India (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et ante), that no matter how hard Indians at first kicked against its traces they would end by settling down, pulling in harness. Last week the Congress Party executive committee, chairmanned by Party President Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, a rabid firebrand by comparison with mild St. Gandhi, grudgingly voted to end the boycott begun last spring...