Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane for Tunis, Couturiere Elsa Schiaparelli tried to explain why she was carrying with her $1,485 in undeclared U.S. bills (which were confiscated), plus several items of jewelry which she had reported stolen the previous week. Released after six hours of questioning, she could only sputter: "I am furious." Later, she told newsmen that she hadn't bothered to report the jewels' recovery because the main item, a set of diamond pins on a chain, valued at $5,714, was still missing. As for the money, she thought she had a right to do with...
...handful of aging masters, French artists have been increasingly aware, lately, of a young master now dead. Francis Gruber was only 36 when he died of asthma and T.B. in 1948; his Montparnasse friends remember him as an overpowering gay blade who talked, drank and painted at a furious clip and did all three magnificently. His paintings, on show in a Paris gallery last week, were sad and bony as a squirrel in March-cold and sometimes acid in color, scalpel-sharp in line. They consisted mostly of hollow-chested nudes, their breasts pinched with cold, whose bones and muscles...
...doesn't yell, holler, scream, shout; get angry, mad, furious; fly off the handle; pound the desk; fuss; fly in a rage; bite your head...
...State Department was first stunned, then furious. Nobody had told it that McCarran would bring up his bill, or that it stood a good chance of passing. State wasn't against lending Spain the money out of the Export-Import Bank, as a straight business proposition. But, like ECA, it was flatly opposed to handing Franco $100 million to do with as he pleased. Even nations like Britain, who were wartime allies, got no such favored treatment. ECA nations had been required to sign tough bilateral treaties with the U.S., to subject their spending plans to U.S. scrutiny...
...crowd was on its feet, screaming "Furuhashi, gambarel [Furuhashi, fight hard]!" The home-town boy chop-chopped to a furious pitch, splashed past Marshall at the 350-meter mark. McLane and Konno pulled ahead of him too, finished second and third...