Word: madding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chickadee, Britain's tit has been taught to relish the meat of coconuts hung on a garden tree.) One Times reader, the bird-loving Countess of Cawdor, took a more ominous view of the matter. "Could it be," she mused darkly, "that it is we ourselves whose mad behavior has affected the tits...
Mexico City's oldtime cabbies, normally carefree and profane, were fighting mad: their tight little monopoly was being threatened. Under a decree handed down by President Lázaro Cárdenas in 1936, licenses had been limited to 5,000 individually owned cabs. Mexico's Supreme Court threw the decree out last year. In moved a fleet of 150 smartly painted cabs called Marfil Marrón (Ivory and Maroon), whose bonded, uniformed drivers were outrageously courteous to passengers, even providing them with electric shavers and the morning papers. When the newcomers, in a deft stroke...
...Blind Man. It wasn't. By midyear, production had dropped 17% but it also seemed, at last, to have found a solid footing. And the "recession," it seemed, had at least in part been caused by a great miscalculation. U.S. businessmen, roaring mad at those who had underestimated the ability of U.S. production to lick inflation, had made a similar mistake themselves. They had underestimated the appetite of U.S. citizens to consume. At the year's start, the supply of goods on hand and in the pipelines seemed enormous-$58.5 billion worth, enough to last...
...Last week, after brooding darkly about the whole thing, Columnist Hearst scratched back at Columnist March: "Friends will be pleased and amazed to learn that Newsgal Evelyn Peyton Gordon at long last is expecting." No one was more amazed than fortyish, married and childless Evie; she was too mad even to scratch back. The sound of strife on Washington's back fence died away. Titillated readers of the society columns would have to go to the right cocktail parties to find out that the stork was orbiting over neither of the contestants...