Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guild president and had spotted what Reagan later called "strange creatures crawling from under the make-believe rocks in our make-believe town." Murphy tried to warn him about the Communist encroachment but could not penetrate what Reagan now regards as his "early white-eyed liberal daze." Reagan became furious at Murphy, labeled him "an archreactionary." But Murphy persisted and, alter Reagan recognized what was happening, the pair patched up their differences. Now Murphy, haying led the way from show biz to public office, is an eager backer of Reagan's cause...
...another, much of the new medical machinery is beneficial fallout from the miniaturization and precise measurement techniques learned by space-age scientists. Like protons, the furious but controllable forces of laser beams have already been used as exact surgical scalpels; at the National Institutes of Health, laser light is also being showered on cultures grown for only four hours in tiny, 2-mm. capillary tubes. The resulting scattered light can be read for presence of bacteria. Because the process is so highly accurate, the cultures do not have to be nourished for days until they grow large enough...
...examines that most unscrupulous of all traitors, the double agent. To say that The Birds Fall Down is a spy story is only to measure the distance between its author and, say, Eric Ambler. Dame Rebecca grants few if any concessions to the literary appetites that batten on furious pace, high action and calculated suspense. Her study is a labyrinthine exercise exploring the riddle of a man who lives on the blood of both enemy and friend...
When Lita got pregnant, Charlie got furious. She writes that at first he tried to force her to get. an abortion, then changed his mind and married her before a Mexican justice of the peace. It seemed as if Charlie would never forgive Lita this propriety, but he relented when she began reading Fanny Hill and betraying an interest in amorous acrobatics. When Charlie Jr. was born, Charlie Sr. tucked her away for a month, she says. He also bribed a doctor to falsify the birth certificate so that it appeared little Charlie had arrived seven months after the wedding...
...Martyrs, six Dorsetshire farm laborers who in 1834 were transported to the penal colony at Australia's Botany Bay for attempting to form a trade union. The memory includes the General Strike of 1926, the massive unemployment of the Great Depression, the perennial pain of class distinctions, the furious battles to gain labor's rights. It has left British labor with what Labor Journalist John Cole calls a "Maginot outlook," in which strikes are called not so much for higher wages as for preserving some time-honored way of doing a job. A belligerent sense of "them...