Word: rabidness
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This rich fabric of oil concessions began to unravel in the late '60s, when the rise of rabid Arab nationalism coincided with the increasing dependence of Japan and the West on Middle East oil. By 1970 Libya was becoming a major producer, and its low-sulfur oil was selling for $2.23 per bbl. The Libyan government asked for a moderate 10¢ per bbl. increase, but a group of Western oil companies offered only 6¢. Led by Colonel Gaddafi, the government struck back by cutting production by 25% and lifting the posted price by 30¢, to $2.53 per bbl., the largest...
Kalmbach was a late graduate (1949) of the University of Southern California and its law school (1951), because his college career was interrupted by wartime service as a Navy pilot. He is remembered at U.S.C. as a rabid football fan who rarely missed even practice sessions...
...Most Valuable Player award that could have been divided eight ways: "In the end it was our poise that held us together." Poise with a punch. The Knicks' triumph, in fact, has given the game a renewed emphasis that is echoed in the clarion call of the rabid Knick fans: "Dee-fense!" A relatively small team, the New Yorkers intimidate not by brute force but with a clawing finesse that presses the limits of the rules. Reed handled Laker Center Wilt Chamberlain, for example, with muscular simplicity: he leaned against the giant like a buttress. The result...
...that infectious inner fire sometimes found in those who become adult converts to a great spiritual vision. He grew up in Paris, barely nourished spiritually on the lukewarm Protestantism of his mother. When he enrolled at the Sorbonne in 1901 during France's rich and corrupt Third Republic, rabid French anticlericalism had turned the church into an intellectual ghetto. At the school itself, a narrow-minded empiricism ruled out serious study of spiritual matters. One day, as Maritain walked hand in hand through a Paris park with his Jewish girl friend Raïssa, the two vowed that...
Parker's accomplishments at Harvard are so well known that he comes very close to fitting the cliche "a legend in his own time"--at least for crew fans who, though few in number, tend to be rabid...