Word: furiouser
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...instance? Rescue others, pull an Alarm, Close all windows and doors, Evacuate the building). In 2003, then-Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis ‘68 decided to ban usage of fireplaces in students’ rooms citing safety concerns. The Crimson reported that students were furious and demanded the right to make s’mores and wax political (or simply procrastinate) in front of a cozy blaze. cough, cough! Another potential hazard lurking in the dorms—or grandma’s house—is asbestos. This fibrous rock, mined (not surprisingly) in Canada...
...that it's not all bad. Now that Pyongyang has confirmed what everyone suspected, it may find it has a less leverage to play the U.S. off against the other parties in the dispute. Everything about China's response to the North Korean test suggests that the Chinese are furious with Kim. The same appears to be true of South Korea, which until now had been pushing to make nice with the North. In in the wake of the test, it's almost impossible to see how Kim can avoid action by the U.N. Security Council. And though truly punitive...
...just a means of getting votes; it can also justify power grabs. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales argued last month before a Senate committee that Internet service providers should be required to keep a massive database of their clients' activity, ostensibly to track down child pornography. In 2002, Foley was furious when the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to outlaw computer-generated animations--not actual video--that depict underage characters having sex. "The high court sided with pedophiles over children," Foley blustered. Or it sided with, you know, the First Amendment. Tomato, tomahto...
...trip to Washington last month, Abbas made the spectacular claim that Hamas - sworn by its charter to destroy Israel - had agreed to recognize the Jewish State. Abbas had hardly spoken the words before they were denied by a Hamas spokesman. A furious Abbas accused the Islamists of reneging on a deal, and also of sabotaging an Egyptian-brokered prisoner exchange that would return the Israeli soldier kidnapped on June 25 in Gaza and free nearly 1,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails...
...shoves and blistered toes are the norm, screaming is assumed appropriate, and broken bottles signify accomplishment rather than an accident. Definitively immoderate and possibly injurious, raging is an angry exertion, one neither easy on the lungs nor the liver. But the questions remain: Why did having fun become so furious? And what are we so mad at?It could just be the alcohol. Rage denotes drink and drinking portends problems. Doesn’t being under the influence basically beget a brawl? We don’t drink because we’re angry, the logic goes, we?...