Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manager Conn Smythe, a man who has been known to walk out on the ice and personally "tighten the necktie" of a referee he considered offensive, spent most of last winter recovering from a shrapnel wound he got at Caen. Without the constant goad of Smythe's furious presence, the gentle Leafs finished the season with fewer man-minutes in the penalty box than any other team in the league, ruefully called themselves the "Lady Byng team...
...Priest. When the Bishop of Como's new man, Don Mario Sessa, finally got to Caravate, tempers soared further. According to an eyewitness: "He was violently assailed by the furious congregation, especially the women, who even tried to tear his clothes off." Don Mario retreated, but returned under the armed protection of the carabinieri. Soon the church bells were ringing again. But nobody in Caravate came to Mass...
...other bomb was figurative and political. The Socialists joined the Communists in a pact calling for "unity of action." This did not mean fusion, which the Socialists, after a furious split, had rejected last April. But an agreement calling for a vigorous nationalization program and the conquest of power by the working classes would probably pry the Socialists loose from their coalition with Premier Alcide de Gasperi's moderate Christian Democrats. Right-wing Socialist Giuseppe Saragat, who had led the fight against fusion, went along witH the new pact and read into it a portentous international significance. He said...
Beatrix Potter was 47 when her creative life came to a sharp stop. On a trip to the Lake District she met and later married William Heelis, a gentle, retiring country lawyer. Mr. Potter was furious, but from then on, says Author Lane, Beatrix "deliberately buried Miss Potter of Bolton Gardens and became another person." She invested her royalties in farmland, flung all her energies into raising sheep. She invented a trap for catching maggot-flies, wrote knowledgeably to friends about housewifery and cooking ("Wm. prefers blue smoke before the bacon is laid on the frying pan"). As the years...
...This is Hell." And Boston appreciated -as few other U.S. cities would-the furious forthrightness he demonstrated as Secretary of the Navy under President Herbert Hoover. He admired Hoover (although he had been a Democrat until 1920). He took it upon himself to praise him publicly at a time when White House relations with Congress were strained...