Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Acting President V. V. Giri, but the Syndicate vetoed his nomination. Then Indira switched her support to Food and Agriculture Minister Jagjivan Ram. The Syndicate, however, forced through the approval of Sanjiva Reddy, Speaker of the Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) and a loyal Syndicate member. Indira was furious and decided to strike back directly at Finance Minister Desai, who had opposed her plan to nationalize the banks...
Delayed Warning. The Dutch were understandably furious. Five days before they were warned, dead fish, ducks and rats had been observed below the German town of Bingen. Why had the Germans failed to sound the alarm sooner? The North Rhine-Westphalian state government explained that a warning was issued to all German waterworks along the river. But then along came the weekend, and officials simply took off without passing the word...
Unnatural Environment. The rhythms of life at Cape Kennedy are set not so much by the clock or the seasons as by the irregular flights of the missiles. Bouts of furious activity and 14-hour days may be followed by periods of idleness. "It's not a natural environment," complains Ray Forbes of General Electric, who visits the space center for launchings but leaves as soon as he can. "Down here you oversmoke, overeat, overdrink, overworry and undersleep...
...this nonsense by Ted Kennedy about Hamburger Hill [May 30] makes me furious. I cannot see how he can make such a statement after what has been happening in the A Shau Valley during the preceding weeks. In early May, the 1/501st Infantry, 101st Airborne Division found one of the largest enemy caches in the history of the war about seven miles from Hamburger Hill. Two weeks later, the 3/187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division found another cache almost as large three miles from Hamburger Hill. The A Shau Valley is the logistical center that keeps the rockets and mortars coming...
Miriam Beerman, 46, lives in Brooklyn, where her husband teaches high school. She paints such pretty topics as shrieking faces, jackals and concentration-camp victims because, as she says forthrightly, "I've always been furious at the world." Born in Providence, Mrs. Beerman studied under Yasuo Kuniyoshi at Manhattan's Art Students League before taking off to France to immerse herself in Goya, the German expressionists, and (as her painting style shows) Britain's Francis Bacon. She is fascinated by the "natural world," and has done a series of paintings on fish, bats, owls. At the moment...