Word: furious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barry Goldwater was not the only one talking about decay in the nation's morality. Last week a group of highly respected clergymen, dismayed by Supreme Court decisions in obscenity cases, exploded in furious criticism of the nation's highest court...
With a burst of furious energy, Egyptian workmen last week completed a three-story, air-conditioned hotel in Alexandria. They raised some 12,000 flags over lampposts and public squares, built 200 triumphal arches, and draped buildings with hundreds of banners car rying slogans of Arab solidarity. As special beach cabins went up on the golden sands of the Mediterranean shore, other workmen dusted and polished furniture and chandeliers in the vast Muntazah Palace and tended 325 acres of gardens...
There are times when a man can hardly count on the sun coming up. Like this year in baseball. Everybody knows that by mid-August the National League is ablaze with a furious pennant fight while the American League placidly watches the New York Yankees march out of sight. Trouble is, this year someone got the names mixed...
...days later they were at it again, and this time Eagle made it exciting. As usual, Cox won the start for Eagle, defended masterfully through a series of furious tacking duels, and led Bavier's Constellation around all five marks of the 24.3-mile Olympic course. Turning the final buoy for the 4½-mile upwind beat to the finish, Cox had a 22-sec. lead. Then Bavier set a new jib on Constellation and launched an exhausting short-tacking drive; 17 times in 15 minutes he put about, gaining a precious second or two on each tack...
Prestige from Rank. Neither strong nor furious, except occasionally with their wives, most Shriners seemed less like noble pranksters than a mobilized cross section of middle-class Americans. They claim an unrestricted membership (though Negroes would be welcome, none have tested the claim, preferring a similar, separate-but-equal Negro Shrine). The organization does include a substantial number of Jews, who are apparently more interested in what one Imperial Potentate called "the opportunity for fun and play and mirth on a truly magnificent scale" than in the Shriners' proud Arabic ancestry...