Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for his rages, Joe's most impressive feature is his unpredictable size. At one point, in a tussle with some furious lions the size of overgrown rats, Joe looks about as big as a house. Later, little bigger than a normal gorilla, he blandly climbs into a standard-size moving van. In reality, Joe is a puppet of fur-covered aluminum, probably not more than twelve to 18 inches tall. His minutest movements were photographed frame by frame, like the drawings in an animated cartoon, and synchronized with scenes with live actors...
...army junta which put Arevalo in. All told, the colonel had dutifully stamped out some 20 attempted uprisings. Last week revolutionary guns again slammed and chattered in Guatemala City, but there was no longer an Arana to quiet them. He had been assassinated. The outbreak was an unplanned, furious, futile attempt to avenge him by ousting the government...
...said that it was all the fault of her boss, William E. Foley, chief of the Foreign Agents Registration Section. Foley (whom she also accused of being furious at her for taking two hours off to get a permanent) had given her the report, asked her to make notes, insisted that she take them to New York to study over the weekend. As for the rest of the data in her handbag-she was so overworked that she had to take things home...
...running at the finish of Indianapolis' famed 500-mile Memorial Day race were powered by eight-cylinder engines. But the engineering specialists who design racing autos reasoned that with fewer moving parts, fewer things could go wrong with an engine. Last week, the twelve cars that finished the furious grind at Indianapolis-at speeds up to a record-breaking 121 m.p.h.-were all four-cylinder jobs...
...Spanish were furious, all the more so because, when Evita Peron visited Madrid two years ago, Father Benitez was a much sought-out member of her party. Madrid's press fairly sizzled. Ya wrote: "It makes one wonder whether the priest's mother had a weakness for a Frenchman." Editorialized Bilbao's El Correo Espanol: "A bilious and ill-adapted clergyman...