Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When British Attorney General Douglas Hogg accepted a hereditary peerage in 1928, his son was furious. Down from Oxford stormed young Quintin McGarel Hogg, complaining that the new family title would one day keep him from becoming Prime Minister-since British Prime Ministers by tradition are chosen from the House of Commons, not the Lords. In 1950, after his father died, ambitious Tory Hogg reluctantly became the second Viscount Hailsham and thus a member of the Lords, which he described as "a political ghetto." Last week, having triumphantly returned from representing Britain at the Moscow test ban talks, Science Minister...
...fast and furious century, the boom lasted, producing a frontier society of bad men, high-priced low ladies, and sausage that sold for 3 drams of gold a link. But in Minas Gerais' old capital of Ouro Preto (Black Gold), the wealth also brought Brazil's first real intellectual and artistic atmosphere, and its first effective stirrings of independence. It was there in 1789 that an army officer named Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (nicknamed Tiradentes, "the tooth puller," because of the amateur dentistry he practiced) joined a conspiracy against Portuguese colonial authority. The Portuguese hanged, quartered...
...came from miles around to pitch in and help rebuild. Up walked an old geezer wearing a carpenter's apron and carrying his own hammer and nails. When he tried to climb a ladder to help nail roofing, a foreman shooed him away. The would-be carpenter was furious. "They think I'm too old!" he grumped. "That's all nonsense. I can outwork half these guys, and I'm as handy with a hammer as the next one!" To prove it, he devoted three hand-blistering hours to nailing sheathing onto the back and side...
...sidewalk when a rock struck her on the head. A photographer for the High Point (N.C.) Enterprise, Art Richardson, 24, set himself to snap a picture, collapsed in the glare of his own flashbulb. He had been shot in the back. From a Negro apartment building came furious shouts: "Tell the white people to get back or we'll start shooting!" The white men stayed. Bullets began to ricochet off the pavement, spurting sparks as they hit. The thunder of the mob rose-louder and louder-until even the sound of gunfire was drowned...
...furies of the southern seas, few are as furious as a U.S. tuna-boat skipper forced to pay up to $8,000 to the government of Ecuador for a one-shot license to drop his nets anywhere within 200 miles of the Ecuadorean coast. Last year, says August Felando, general manager of the American Tuna Boat Association, West Coast skippers were hooked for a cool $500,000 for the privilege of fishing in the 66,000 sq. mi. of blue Pacific Ocean claimed by Ecuador. "The association felt that things were getting worse, with fines and harassments from the Ecuadorean...