Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McClellan, furious because he had not been shown a committee document, was reminded of something else he was angry about. To McCarthy he said: "You keep talking about 133 Communists that you want to investigate, and I haven't been able to get the name of one of them yet" (although his request had been made ten days earlier...
Each day for the past nine weeks a furious little motorcade raced back and forth across the roads of Ireland. In the lead ran a seek, black Packard with Ireland's Prime Minister slouched wearily in the front seat beside a tense driver; close behind came a darting blue Ford with its complement of sleepy detectives. In district after district where the caravan stopped, farmers and townsfolk clustered round for a look at the gaunt, aging (71) hero who had won political freedom for their nation in 1922 and guided its destiny almost constantly ever since. They listened respectfully...
...fair and balanced a team to want to debunk Gordon. "But a man without fault is dreadfully dull and also extremely improbable. What ... we asked ourselves, was this man really like?" He was a small, blue-eyed Scot whose charm was so great that even his enemies forgave his furious temper and Messianic pomposity. He detested formal society and despised money: often his first act on taking new office would be to cut his salary. He led scratch armies to victory all the way from Nanking to Equatorial Africa, but he never came near to winning his private battle with...
...hold of Coach Bob Kiphuth's patently pessimistic remarks and bludgeoned the Elis almost into the position of underdogs, and then, when the meet was over sarcastically attacked the Harvards we hold back. The Daily depicted 'the vaunted Harvard swimming team as disintegrating like a bad dream before the furious onslaught of the Yalies. A rendition of 'Good Night Fair Harvard' would have been a more fitting climax to the meet than the 400 yard freestyle relay which Kiphuth predicted would decide the winner...
...suspicion grew. When she mentioned Wilma's death, "Ugo became simply furious and told me I knew too much, and I had better go away." Later, young Piccioni telephoned Ugo during dinner. "Montagna told me he had to go to the chief of police to hush up the affair, since they were trying to link Piero Piccioni with the death of Wilma Montesi. Ugo drove me to the police headquarters [where Tommaso Pavone, chief of the national police, had his office], and a few minutes later Piccioni arrived. They finally went inside and stayed more than an hour...