Word: rabidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...push during the last ten days before the March 31 election date. He did, however, make one notable excursion into the traditional blooding ground of British politicians, the Rag Market in Birmingham. There he had barely stepped onto the podium in the huge underground concrete hall when an especially rabid band of hecklers shrieked so loud and so long that Wilson could not be heard above the din. When police waded into the crowd to restrain the troublemakers, Wilson waved the bobbies off. "They are not in need of police protection," he said. "They are a matter for the Ministry...
...other gubernatorial candidates, four besides Lurleen have a chance of surviving the first primary round on May 3. They are former Governor John Patterson, a rabid segregationist, and three moderates: Attorney General Richmond Flowers, former Representative Carl Elliott and State Senator Bob Gilchrist. If no candidate gets 50% of the vote, there will be a runoff between the two top vote getters on May 31. The winner will face a stiff fight from a strong Republican Party, which is expected to unite behind its own bitter-end segregationist, Freshman Representative James Martin, 47. Martin, who entered politics in 1962, came...
...murdered father, Paul I, and half-crazed by a sense of guilt for Napoleon's burning of Moscow. A handsome rakehell, Alexander had latterly fallen under the influence of Baroness Barbara Juliana von Kriüdener, a Baltic Billy Sunday who converted the Czar into a rabid religious mystic. Thus in 1825 he decided to change his life...
Then there is the Dominican Republic, where Communists and far-leftists of every stripe attempted to steal away a coup in favor of deposed President Juan Bosch, then fought bitterly to keep OAS and U.S. troops from pacifying the situation. These Red groups, the most rabid of which is the Castroite 14th of June Movement, have now hidden thousands of arms in case another opportunity presents itself. In the meantime, Juan Bosch has been parading around Santo Domingo calling for "strikes, demonstrations and appeals" to drive out the OAS's peacekeeping troops...
June--Nathan Marsh Pusey is appointed President by the Corporation. McCarthy attacks the new President, calling him a "rabid, anti-anti-Communist...