Word: rabid
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...terrorists. Fellow students who should have respectfully listened to his words—even if they disagreed—launched a highly organized, highly personal attack against him. His speech, once entitled “American Jihad,” in the end proved innocuous even to the most rabid skeptics. But the furor showed how the political demands of America’s war obfuscate clear thinking about that clear morning last September...
...violent outbursts at age 4 and still has periods when he goes almost completely feral. He once threw a butcher knife at his mother, nearly striking her before she ducked out of the way. "That day started out fine," Broman says, "but he turned on me like a rabid...
...real New Yorkers are superheroes by night, but each seeks to transcend the ordinary by excelling with indomitable spirit. Those rabid Yankee fans, like one of my co-workers at ABC, at once express their individuality and collective identity through their almost-excessive paraphernalia and fanaticism. Even the owner and manager of the local Subway franchise lives a second life. As a day trader, he most likely makes more money and derives more excitement playing the volatile stock market than managing his “sandwich artists...
...wide, silver belts. "Jau Phaendin?" asks my wife. "Don't you know?" whispers one of the women. The last Dai King, she tells us, was exiled to Kunming during the tumultuous early years of the People's Republic of China, and his magnificent teak palace was torn down by rabid Red Guards. The Dai were a feisty people, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, and it was felt they did not need a monarch around to stir up ethnic pride or notions of independence. (These days, the septuagenarian King works at the Yunnan Research Institute for Nationalities, and the Chinese...
There are some baseball fans so rabid that a signed mitt or a piece of AstroTurf does not constitute an adequate relic. Perhaps this explains a $23,000 bid on eBay last week for bone chips removed from the elbow of Seattle Mariners pitcher JEFF NELSON, which he had put up for auction for charity. It was not unprecedented. Recently a man paid $10,000 for a piece of gum chewed by Arizona Diamondback Luis Gonzalez, and another paid $75 for clippings from the goatee of Oakland A Tim Hudson. Neither of those transactions took place on eBay, however, which...