Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baths of Caracalla. Eva, in black flowered silk with a white fox cape, her hair, ear lobes and shapely neck glittering with diamonds, arrived on the arm of Premier de Gasperi just in time to delay the second act a full half-hour. Some of the paying guests were furious, but the Latin American diplomats, who had the best seats, cheered wildly...
...right. The Federal Government, which recently invited bids for 224 million barrels of fuel oil to heat Government buildings and hospitals, got offers of only 19 million barrels. The Army and Navy were just as short. Part of the trouble was that the big oil companies were in a furious "brand" race to capture larger portions of the civilian market. But the biggest trouble was that the U.S. is burning up 5,353,000 barrels of oil a day-and producing only 5,264,000. Even with imports, storage reserves were dropping...
...city fathers by giving him a steady job. Only in the last, melodramatic chapter-which reads like a climax by James M. Cain-does Author Lewis feel the need to range a couple of whites at Neil's side, when he is almost lynched by a horde of furious Babbitts, armed with shotguns...
Last week in Shanghai, frightened and furious over persistent mob raids on their shops (nine in one day), some 300 rice merchants milled in front of City Hall. They shouted for protection. Mayor K. C. Wu refused it. They called for a gag on Little Happiness. Mayor Wu refused that. Someone cried: "Let's go to Heavenly Voice radio station and take care of Little Happiness ourselves!" Others echoed...
Violent and prolonged anger can play havoc with body tissues, said Dr. Harold G. Wolff of Cornell Medical College. A furious man - or even a peevish one who constantly takes umbrage - gets too much blood in his stomach walls; if he stays angry too long, ulcers may result. The fury or sulking fits aroused by threats to a man's life or his love, said Dr. Wolff, sometimes affects his nose: it may swell up and hurt. A "mad" nose, caught with its resistance down, is easy prey to colds and other infections...