Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...darkening outside Cyprus as well. Turkey, furious at the slaughter of its outnumbered (4 to 1) compatriots, rushed an army division to the seaport of Iskenderun, only 125 miles from Cyprus, assembled naval units for what was described as "maneuvers." Greece, which could ordinarily be expected to counter any Turkish move, was preoccupied with a national election...
...measure of white reaction was a furious hassle over the proposed pairing of two Queens grade schools, one 87% white, the other 97% Negro. The schools are only six blocks apart; all first-and second-graders would attend one school, all third-to sixth-graders the other. One Jewish mother's reaction: "If the Negroes want to get ahead, why don't they do what we Jews did?" Said disheartened Rabbi Myron Fenster: "What the whites are saying is: 'If the whole society is rotten, why start with me? I don't want to take...
...Listen, Almighty, with all your might," cries the speaker, shouting her furious prayer over the orchestra's anguished scream. "You show me nothing at all," she tells God, and the orchestra blares Amen. But that seems a bit stiff...
...Furious and frightened, King Saud hurried back to his capital city of Riyadh, took refuge inside the seven-mile circumference of Naziriyah Palace compound and ordered his Royal Guard to cover all approaches. At night the 6,000 wall lights on the palace glared brightly to avoid a sneak attack, as the King fired off a nervous demand for assurances that Feisal would not depose...
...have to yield my own convictions, fully supported by facts, then I'll go home." Instead of going home, he went straight back to his subcommittee and forced through a cut of $800 million, from the $3.6 billion authorization to an appropriations recommendation of $2.8 billion. Johnson was furious, called in reporters for a statement: "The proposed reductions in foreign aid funds would put our foreign policy in a straitjacket. I cannot believe the Congress intends to require the United States of America to follow policies of weakness and retreat...