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Word: furiously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State's Attorney's office raided a dingy West Side Chicago apartment, looking for a cache of illegal guns. Possessing a search warrant, the officers said that they forced open a barricaded door and were greeted by a shotgun blast. They returned the fire, setting off a furious ten-minute shoot-out with the apartment's occupants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Police and Panthers at War | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...have been thrown in the face of the silent-movie business, but few as sour as The Comic. If its advertisements are to be believed, the movie is simply a fond lampoon of Hollywood's pride-and-pratfall epoch. As the film unreels, it becomes in fact a furious editorial about a business that treats its veterans like overexposed celluloid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Burned-Out Star | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Kennedy's fortunes burgeoned almost as rapidly. He bought a chain of 31 small New England movie houses, and by 1928 his maneuverings in show business brought him control of the Keith-Albee-Orpheum chain. He went to Hollywood, spent 32 furious months investing in the movies, and came away about $5 million richer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: DEATH OF THE FOUNDER | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

Many of the new feminists are surprisingly violent in mood, and seem to be trying, in fact, to repel other women rather than attract them. Hundreds of young girls are learning karate, tossing oft furious statements about "male chauvinists," distributing threatening handouts ("Watch out! You may meet a real castrating female!"), and even citing with approval the dictum of the late revolutionary Frantz Fanon: An oppressed individual cannot feel liberated until he kills one of the oppressors. This is all borrowed, of course, from the fiery rhetoric of today's militant black and student movements, but a deep feminine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The New Feminists: Revolt Against Sexism | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

Even this near miss did not arouse the Harvard offense, but the urgency of the situation became painfully apparent after Jordan scored the winning goal. By then it was too late, and the Dartmouth defense staved off a quasi-furious charge by the Yardlings in the final minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Booters Take First Loss | 10/27/1969 | See Source »

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