Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite such problems, a furious remodeling program has added manicured new gardens to the academy, as well as indoor plumbing for the six guest bungalows and electric light for all the buildings. An airstrip is being built nearby for the Maharishi's new twin-engined Beechcraft Baron, the gift of the International Meditation Society, and a rough helipad has been cleared away on the hillside. Most of the improvements have been bankrolled by the initiation fee of the Maharishi's move ment-a flat donation of the pilgrim's salary for one week, which...
...Social Democratic Party that De Gaulle, far from being a friend, was a "power-thirsty old man" obsessed by "rigid, un-European ideas." Stunned, Couve said to an aide: "Power-thirsty! Perhaps Herr Brandt had one glass too many." When De Gaulle heard the news, he was furious. Next morning he summoned Couve to the Elysée Palace, and Couve in turn summoned German Ambassador Manfred Klaiber to demand an explanation. The ambassador was in agony. He apologized profusely for the dispatch, which had been filed by a young German news agency reporter, but insisted that it had misquoted...
...anyone out of an editorship--I not only didn't I wouldn't." Although asserting that he deplored Schwartz's editorial for what he called its inaccuracies, he said he had congratulated Feintuch for doing a good job with the bulletin. He added that "if President Pusey is furious about something he can express his own fury...
...Stalingrad in 1942-43, when the long thrust of Hitler's armies into Russia was halted and reversed. This week the 720,000 people of Volgograd-as Stalingrad was renamed in 1961 during Khrushchev's destalinization campaign-mark the 25th anniversary of the end of the furious battle on the Volga's west bank, in which about 300,000 soldiers and civilians lost their lives. For its commemoration, the city has a statue of a bosomy Mother Russia waving a sword, which rises 170 feet above the Mamaev Hill, where some of the fiercest fighting raged. Farther...
Formerly head of Pratt Institute, Oxnam had the trustees' approval to oversee all operations of the seminary as well as Drew's secular departments. Annoyed at their loss of control over budgets and policy, the seminary professors were furious when Oxnam vetoed a proposed faculty appointment on the ground that the salary offered the man was too high. Seminary Dean Charles W. Ranson then signed a confidential letter of complaint to the trustees-an action that Oxnam used as an excuse for firing him. Although Oxnam was backed by the trustees and by a special investigative committee appointed...