Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...negotiated the first ransom arrangements for East German prisoners. Much of his interest in reunification dates from that time, but his proposals last week served a more immediate purpose as well. They were bannered on Page One of every major West German newspaper and were the topic of furious debate throughout the nation. A reporter in Washington asked Barzel, shortly after he had conferred with Lyndon Johnson for 40 minutes on the subject, whether he was satisfied with the uproar he had caused. He beamed, "Very." For Barzel makes no apologies for being an ambitious...
...Sellout!" Naturally, not everybody is overjoyed at the merger-notably David ("Sonny") Werblin, owner of the A.F.L.'s New York Jets, who is furious at having to pay the indemnity (his share: $2,000,000) to his cross-town N.F.L. rivals, the Giants. "Sellout!" screamed Werblin, who has sold 43,000 season tickets...
...animals than it is in man. Members of two different animal species frequently fight to a fatal finish; members of the same species seldom go so far. At the last minute, the animal getting the worst of it makes a gesture of submission and the victor, no matter how furious his rage, is compelled by the gesture to spare the victim's life...
...matter to anyone that I had just entered this country, could hardly speak English, had already spent five years surviving a war, and, above all, after ten years could finally attend a decent school. No, on reading "The President of the U.S. etc. ..." I did not become furious, nor did I rocket my Volkswagen around the block. The affluent society had not yet given me a chance...
...months away from a hard-won geology degree at California State College at Los Angeles, blew up. He crushed the letter into a ball, jammed it into his pocket and stamped out of the house. His mother shouted after him, "Be careful, Gary! Don't do anything rash." Furious, he climbed into his Volkswagen, rocketed the little car around the block a couple of times until he had calmed down slightly, then roared off to his draft board office to spill his spleen. "I was upset," he recalls. "And mad. And depressed...