Word: rabidly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After falling behind, 1-0, Harvard retaliated with two goals in each of the last two periods to leave the Wildcats and their rabid fans surprised, bewildered and frustrated...
Then, a calm silence settled over the tundra. The rabid polar bear lay peacefully, harpoon through the throat, its guts coloring the bland snow. Justin kneeled, motionless. Kamik rubbed his arm violently in the snow, wailing in his native Eskimo dialect...
...Justin saw on the horizon was a white-hot, white desert. Stranded, his food ravaged by the rabid bear, left without an igloo, he felt doomed. His fingers no longer functioned, his features were numb from the incessant cold...
...renumbered offshoots make you stop and think again. Nixon wanted above all to stamp out the demonstrators who were impeding his efforts in Vietnam, and the journalists who were leaking state secrets, and the blacks who were rioting and attacking private property--so he sent his most rabid loyalists to prepare a bill to revise the criminal code and beat back Communists who were obviously responsible for all these disturbances--and S1 was born. Why is Kennedy, who bills himself the last hope of the liberals, backing it? If you want to be President you have to appeal...
Hence, the rabid anti communism of the late 40s and 50s never appears in this book; presumably the widely-held belief that the world was rife with commies had no impact on U.S. military strategy. Presumably the Korean war raised no questions about the use of nuclear weapons; Mandelbaum asserts only that Eisenhower's veiled references to The Bomb helped end the war. Presumably, in writing the history of American strategic thought in the last three decades, the Vietnam war is worth no more than a paragraph of simplistic analysis; for Mandelbaum the war was "first a laboratory...then...