Word: rabidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family is what the Spanish call olla podrida, or rotten pot, a mess. His brutal father dies, literally, rabid. His imbecile brother, whose ears were chewed off by a hog, drowns in an oil vat. Rosario, his sister, is the only one Pascual even begins to love. She is a whore practically from puberty. His feelings for her are more than slightly incestuous. When her lover seduces Pascual's wife, Pascual kills...
...victory last week over short-term Incumbent Democrat Pierre Salinger was a classic study in how to handle the California electorate. Democrats there outnumber Republicans 3 to 2. To rate even the thinnest chance of winning, Murphy not only had to hold onto all factions of the G.O.P., from rabid-right kooks to solid moderates, he also had to pick up some 20% of Democratic and Independent votes...
...official radio said they were kept open late "because of the heavy crowds." In Kabylia, infested with anti-government guerrillas, 43% of the voters boycotted the election, even at the risk of reprisals. Foreign newsmen were forbidden entrance to Michelet, hometown of Hocine Aï't Ahmed, a rabid Ben Bella opponent...
Modell was not just dreaming. The opening of the pro-football season is still two weeks away, but this Saturday 80,000 rabid fans will elbow into Cleveland's Municipal Stadium to watch the Browns v. the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants v. the Detroit Lions in a pro-football "doubleheader." The games are mere preseason exhibitions-the kind of practice scrimmage that no one used to notice. But now pro football is growing so wildly popular that no one can wait for the official gong. Many games are sellouts, and those...
They have no vote in Congress and cannot vote for President, but their local government is completely independent -Congress cannot overrule island legislation. A few rabid Independentistas make trouble now and then, and a small but a growing group agitates for statehood. Yet in every election since 1952, Muñoz and his Popular Democrats have walked off with between 58% and 65% of the vote...