Word: madding
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...niece. "I tried to stop them, but it was impossible," says Muteguya, surveying the long red-earth mound where they lie buried. "They were indoctrinated in a manner that if you tried to argue with them, they kept quiet. You ended up talking around like a mad person." Muteguya did manage to stop his relatives from selling the small family farm and late last year tried again to persuade his 16-year-old sister to leave the sect. "She came home to the village a few times, and I think she had given up because my mother had been transferred...
...finds it particularly objectionable when professional football players huddle on the field for a semi-private pregame prayer. But when a similar prayer is broadcast from the bleachers of a public high school football game, fallout becomes more likely - even in football-mad, religiously conservative Texas. Witness the events of 1995 in Santa Fe, Texas: The families of two students at the local high school filed suit against the district, claiming the pregame prayers blaring out of the school's public address system violated the First Amendment by "creating a pervasive religious atmosphere." Those families are not feeling especially popular...
...Prime Minister's wife, Lady Macdonald, traveled across the new country. For 600 miles of the trip she sat in a candle box attached to the cowcatcher on the front end of the train. There she was thrilled by "the novelty, the excitement and the fun of this mad ride...with magnificent mountains before and around me, their lofty peaks smiling down on us, and never a frown on their grand faces." More than a century later, the Rockies still smile down on passengers traveling across Canada aboard VIA Rail's Canadian, which now takes a more northerly route through...
There's no lack of crazy folks on TV. As in Stark Raving Mad, as in "cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs," as in, that Dharma...
...hope this glossary gives you a better sense of March Madness and all its wonderful aspects and traditions. Now you can participate in those fun dinnertime discussions and say intelligent things like "Well I had Iowa State going to the Four but I realized Fizer couldn't contain the mad ups of MSU's Pederson...