Word: rabidness
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Courageously turning a deaf ear to rabid nationalists, and ignoring the outlawed Communists who cry out against Yankee imperialism, he pointed to the need for U.S. dollars to put Brazil's economic machine in high gear. He wanted laws that would open up the country to profitable exploitation by foreign capital...
...House, a Judiciary subcommittee voted out an anti-lynching bill. Heaping the coals higher, a delegation of Negro leaders waited on Speaker of the House Joe Martin, presented him with a petition bearing more than a million signatures which demanded the immediate ejection from Congress of Mississippi's rabid John Rankin...
...girl engaged to be married, joined him in Switzerland. Mirabeau seduced the other girl. A queer conflict developed with his sister -he wrote to his mistress of her in detail that admitted of incestuous relations; the letter fell into the hands of her father; she became the most rabid of all the enemies who pursued...
TIME'S Jan. 26 story on the Wisconsin-Iowa basketball game at Madison . . . leads many of us rabid, wild-eyed midwestern basketball fans to wonder . . . whether TIME'S snappy style necessitates a mutilation of the facts...
...boss couldn't do anything worse than say no. So Edward Breslin, 21, a $45-a-week cub Hearstling on the Detroit Times and a rabid sports fan, screwed up his courage, walked up to the city desk, and asked if he could please go see the Rose Bowl game. City Editor John MacLellan surprised him. Instead of turning him down, the boss proposed a bet: if Breslin wanted to hitchhike out to Pasadena and crash the gate, all on $50 of his own, he could go ahead. If he made it, the Times would pay him back...