Word: rabidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have heard similar, though smaller reports from returned servicemen-not rabid peaceniks but "average American boys" who defend their sickening conduct. I have done nothing about these accounts, and God knows what my guilt is. Am I the only...
...burden of his illegitimacy weighed so heavily that it drove him to deeds of improbable and even reckless heroism. In the bizarre personage of King Atahuallpa (Christopher Plummer) Pizarro encounters a man of his own kind, an implacable and almost superhuman force. Atahuallpa gives short shrift to the rabid Catholic missionaries in Pizarro's party and, looking into the explorer's eyes, says tellingly: "Their God is not in your face." Replies Pizarro: "I see my father in your face." The eventual and inevitable execution of Atahuallpa becomes a pat symbol of Pizarro's psychosis, at once...
...things weren't quite the same. The audience was too grown up to scream and squeal. They clapped instead and called "Bravo!" and "More, more!" And Elvis-with longer sideburns and the grease out of his hair-was gently kidding the old songs and himself. After an especially rabid Hound Dog that ended with a split-kick jump, he was so winded that he reached for a glass of water, telling the audience: "You just look at me a couple of minutes while I get my breath back...
...Even our most rabid enemies have never used such unworthy methods and on such a scale as the Chinese leaders." With those words, Andrei Gromyko last week told the Supreme Soviet of the deepening division between the two former Communist allies. Gromyko had new evidence for his statement. For the fourth time in five months, fighting had erupted along the Sino-Soviet border...
...small but rabid band of Welsh nationalists has been sounding off angrily ever since the announcement that Britain's Prince Charles would be formally named Prince of Wales this July 1. But the protests all seemed more bark than bite. Now nine Welshmen are on trial for organizing a paramilitary outfit called the Free Wales Army, and last week the court was told of a document found in the home of one defendant detailing plans to murder young Charles "if necessary" to prevent his investiture at Caernarvon Castle. Unmoved, Charles maintained his royal composure and went about his studies...