Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They were attacked by four MIGs. Although the ensuing dogfight was too fast and furious for the U.S. pilots to make positive identification, the MIGs almost certainly belonged to the Chinese Communists rather than the North Vietnamese. When the battle was over, one Phantom jet was missing, though the Pentagon refused to confirm the loss officially. As for the MIGs, they beat a hasty retreat in the direction of Hainan...
...Kloran and the Kla-rogo, the Klorero and the Kludd.* In the Klan Kalendar, the days of the week were named Dark, Deadly, Dismal, Doleful, Desolate, Dreadful and Desperate; the weeks of the month were Woeful, Weeping, Wailing, Wonderful and Weird, and the months Bloody, Gloomy, Hideous, Fearful, Furious, Alarming, Terrible, Horrible, Mournful, Sorrowful, Frightful and Appalling...
...banks speeded up their negotiations, legally joined to form the nation's fourth largest bank half an hour before the trustbusters filed suit to stop the action. Faced with a fait accompli, a federal judge refused to consider the Justice Department's bid for a restraining order. Furious over the maneuver, particularly since the two banks had not discussed their plans with it, Justice immediately filed another suit...
...wife then went to talk to the policeman in the booth at the Square. "I said, 'can I talk to you,' and he said something like 'sure kid, start talking.' So he tried in his way to get the story out of me and I, being furious, tried to tell the story...
...President makes no secret of the fact that he is furious at leaks of any kind; because of them, he has postponed appointments, even changed programs. Members of his staff, sworn to silence on pain of presidential wrath, know better than to be seen chatting with a newsman. The press feud has culminated, noted Columnist Joe Alsop, in an "almost hysterical secretiveness which the Johnson Administration has been carrying to extremes quite unimagined in any previous American Government...