Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...descendant of John Alden, and a man who dotes on his purebred lines, Banker Davis was so furious that he ordered his public relations firm to deluge New York newspapers with a five-page release denouncing his daughter and mourning the loss to Princeton. Diana already has "an assured $30,000-a-year income for life and a $100,000 cash gift," said Davis. He could "only attribute her unreasonable selfishness to the unrealistic materialism prevalent among American youth of today." When he some day asks Son Shelby to relinquish his own trust, added Davis, who knows a thing...
...varsity needed a higher stroke for the race than it has used previously this season. Opening with a furious sprint of 44, the lights settled to a 34 for the body of the mile and five-sixteenths course, and rose to a 43 pace across the finish line...
...boys are furious. War, real grownup war at last, not five kilometers away, and here they sit like schoolboys playing bang-you're-dead at the edge of their own home town. They dig in to defend the bridge, and suddenly the Americans are upon them. The last hour of the film is pure Schreck, a minutely observed, almost unwatchable massacre of the innocents...
...Crimson lightweights captured their sixth straight Biglin Bowl on the Charles Saturday, but they needed a furious stretch surge to hold off the M.I.T. eight they had beaten soundly two weeks ago. The Crimson has now captured the Biglin Bowl in every race but one since its inauguration in 1955, losing the triangular competition only to M.I.T. in the first race held...
Subsequent foolery had Kovacs in a Cecil B. DeMille suit, grafted by trick camera work on antique film clips as a furious and futile director. The joke dragged on too long. But it was followed by one inspired bit of mockery: an immense, grossly fat ballerina staggering to the first crashing chords of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, with the rest of that philharmonic turkey illustrated by rhythmically cracking celery and splattering eggs...