Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Criticism of the new student porter plan has come fast and furious. Many students fell that it is unfair to raise room rents by 15 percent and at the same time reduce the amount of service. Others oppose the plan because they fear a stigma will be attached to such student workers...
Oscar Collazo, the sad-eyed little Puerto Rican nationalist, had virtually no defense to offer for his part in last November's wild-eyed plot to assassinate President Truman. He could only insist that he and his fellow conspirator, Griselio Torresola (who died during the furious gun battle on the Blair House sidewalk), had no intention of shooting the President; they were simply staging a demonstration in behalf of Puerto Rican independence. In Washington federal court last week, the jury took only one ballot to decide on its verdict: guilty of the premeditated murder of White House Guard Leslie...
...Arming at a furious pace, specifically, getting bombers and tanks from Moscow, in direct violation of peace treaties...
...Attack. Last month the Barcelona streetcar company announced a 40% fare rise from 50 to 70 centimes. Students and workers were furious. As D-day for the fare rise (March i) approached, protest posters appeared on walls, chain letters floated through the mails: "Be a good citizen, show your courage. Starting March i, hoof it to work." Kids chanted in the streets: "If you want your morning jolly, stay away from the trolley...
Strout's crudest cut was a repetition of the charge (TIME, Feb. 26), that Martin was really Britain's Bertie McCormick. "Different as the publishers are in some respects," wrote Strout, "they share a furious self-rectitude, a fine ability to raise everybody's blood-pressure and a loathing for American foreign policy...