Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President of the U.S. got his modern history wrong. The King of Saudi Arabia flunked ancient history, ethnology and arithmetic. The Prime Minister of Great Britain was annoyed. Arabs and Zionists were furious...
There were reports that Crowley may have written a separate letter about FEA. Whether he did or not, insiders surmised that he was furious on two counts: 1) because FEA's handling of surplus property abroad had gone to the State Department; 2) because he had been fighting a minority battle against easy terms to the British. Banker minded Leo Crowley, who had suggested the brusque termination of Lend-Lease to Britain, wanted no part of arrangements with England such as grants-in-aid or non-interest-bearing loans...
...rdoba police ignored a writ of habeas corpus, shipped a college president off for Buenos Aires by train. Furious, the judge who had granted the writ overtook the train in a car, had the prisoner freed. In Buenos Aires, a Radical Party leader locked the arresting officer in a bathroom...
...little. As Senators they had rarely seen eye to eye. Harry Truman voted 99% New Deal, Bennett Clark had chipped and sniped away at Franklin Roosevelt. In the 1944 primaries, Clark was repudiated by Missouri voters in the primary, largely on the strength of labor opposition. Now labor was furious. Cried C.I.O. Spokesman J. Raymond Walsh: "A scandal, crude and inexcusable. . . . It's not dishonest, it's simply dangerous...
...important place. He dutifully interviewed Chicagoans who came to play in Paris, learned to duck when they wanted a French-speaking guide to the brothels. In 1911, he got excited by Italy's war on Turkey, but when his editors did not share his excitement, "I wrote a furious poem in blank verse, denouncing the peoples of the Western world for [their] complacency. . . . With men killing each other in the desert, I got a request to pick out the best jokes each week from the funny papers...