Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the whole town took up the cry of angry protest. Six Providence lawyers volunteered legal help. Most of the town's veterans' organizations and the Good Government Club rallied around. There were mass meetings, hangings in effigy, furious speechmaking. A minor intramural row had turned into a major political fight. The biggest heroes in the city were handsome, hefty Patrolmen Frank Klich, Lucien Tessier, John Byrnes and John Gorman-now nicknamed the "Fearless Four...
...mine and have been very kindly to me in the past about some things and I want to help them if I could." (When General Campbell said he had, as usual, made a recorded transcript of the talk, other worried Congressmen lost sight of the investigation completely, began a furious hue-& -cry about "wire-tapping...
...umpire's high chair, and the solemn cavortings of short-haired racqueteers has changed to ten long, prefabricated "dwellings," black drums of kerosene, and the mystical contortions of two-year-olds in a sand-box. Spirited undergraduates wearing white wool sweater and mouse-colored sneakers, and frothing for a furious afternoon of net-play, are apt to find nothing more athletic at Jarvis than a slow set of Bean-Bag with a law student's heir. And not only are there law students' heirs. There are law students' wives. There are biologists' wives, and spouses and issue of veteran students...
...than Konev. Zheltov is a member of the NKVD, is secretive about his past, talks suavely, narrows his eyes when he gets excited, was once a wrestler (220 Ibs.) and is usually described by U.S. correspondents as bullnecked. (Recently he insisted on finding out what the word meant, was furious when...
Every morning at 9:30, a big bell rings in the pit room of Chicago's Board of Trade. It sends traders swarming over the floor, starts the furious finger signaling which means "buy" and "sell" in the world's greatest grain exchange. But one day last week the big bell did not ring at 9:30; for the first time in 13 years,* grain trading stopped in Chicago...