Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take over, and the son jumped on a plane, flew to Toronto and began frenzied preparation. Only the following morning did he learn that the crusade's local organizers, reportedly after consulting with Billy's staff, had decided to use another of the organization's preachers. Months later, still furious, Franklin explicitly connected the incident to the politics of succession. "Listen, people will shoot you for $20; for $90 million, who knows?" he told Business North Carolina. "I wouldn't touch B.G.E.A. leadership with a 10-foot pole." Although, he added, if his father asked him personally he would give...
...They were rude...and they dismissed him. And he was furious and he was shaking...He threatened to get even." --Northwestern University professor Don Saari on ABC News, recounting Ted Kaczynksi's response to the refusal by Northwestern and the University of Illinois to publish his manuscript--five weeks before the first Unabomber attack occurred...
...answer quickly emerged: very high, unbelievably high. Perhaps the best indication on the opening night of the stratospheres ahead came with the offering of a small stool with a torn, faded and stained satin cover. Sotheby's had estimated its market value at $100 to $150. After a furious competition between three bidders, two in the room and one on the phone, the homely little piece was sold...
...down to the 19th century. In pottery, the innovation of blue glaze designs painted on a white ground belongs to the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1272-1368); but it reached its finest period under the later Ming Emperors in such objects as an early 15th century porcelain vase with a furious blue dragon galumphing around it, all its spikes and scales and fierce serpent rhythms contrasting with the suave, plump profile of the vase...
...difficult not to be furious at the airheadedness vocabulary and a sort of breezy California child-worship and irresponsibility among those who were supposed to be the adults. Someone had obviously caught the virus from the '60s that disabled grownup functions...