Word: rabidness
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...wood for the trees sold down the river. Idolized Camilli, sacked, quit baseball for good. Onetime great hitter Medwick, sold at the waiver price, was blasting base knocks for the rival New York Giants. Heady from two champagne years, Brooklynites were tasting punctured seltzer water. Brooklyn's erstwhile rabid rooters felt that it was Rickey who had left the cap off. They needed more than two hands to catalog his infamies and betrayals. Bleachers were full of "Down with Rickey" signs...
...recent convert to baseball, Four-Striper McClure is now a rabid fan. When Seaman Rizzuto made a home run in a recent game with the Washington Senators, the Certain sprang off the players' bench, rushed out to shake his hand as he crossed the plate. During another game, when fly-chasing Di Maggio backed into a deep gully on the edge of the field, Captain McClure jumped into his private jeep, scooted across the field to see if he was hurt. The Captain is constantly tacking notices on the clubhouse bulletin board. The morning of a game with...
...York Times last week phoned local psychiatrists for a diagnosis of Harry James's rabid fans. The experts agreed that love of rhythm and the desire to dance are "perfectly healthy." One neurologist, who would not let his name be used, explained: "All of life, all humanity, the cosmos itself, is built upon the beat principle. . . . Its appeal is closely connected with mob hysteria, for you see the same responses in Germany, in the Niirnberg meetings, for example, where the multitudes are swung together under control in a certain direction. One of the secrets of Hitler's power...
Both party caucuses adjourned without action on three major issues that will really test Administration leadership: i) extension of reciprocal trade agreements; 2) extension of Lend-Lease; 3) broadening of Social Security coverage. Rabid Republican partisans and Democratic conservatives may be tempted to wage a political fight on all three. (There are already demands for a Lend-Lease investigation-inspired apparently more by Congressional dislike of Harry Hopkins than of Lend-Lease.) But level heads of both parties wanted no partisan disruption of the war effort...
...Democrat with a rugged individualist's distrust of the New Deal: he opposed the Third Term as a delegate to the 1940 Chicago convention, became a rabid Democrat-for-Willkie, was drafted by the Republicans this year when their original candidate died. Says Individualist Moore: "I consider money a tool with which to work. It's a responsibility and I've used it to give employment to thousands of men. ... I want to use my money in my own business to help build my country. That's my religion...