Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carlo Rubbia and Stanford's Burton Richter, are known for their relentless ambition, feisty competitiveness and monumental egos. All have already won Nobel Prizes, but that seems only to have increased their desire for greater achievements. In the rush to get results, they push their staffs mercilessly and are furious -- at least in private -- whenever they come in second...
...activists, of course, are furious with the church because of its opposition to condoms on the ground that their use encourages homosexual activity. A Los Angeles representative of the gay militant group ACT UP dismissed Mahony's gesture as mere "public relations." But the number of volunteering nuns and priests was a reminder that such humanitarianism has a long Christian tradition. In 1758, for example, America's leading clergyman, Jonathan Edwards, volunteered to test an experimental vaccine during a raging smallpox epidemic. He died -- of smallpox -- at age 54, just a month after becoming president of Princeton...
When London imposed a poll tax in 1381, revolting peasants beheaded four of the King's ministers. A similar levy is scheduled to take effect April 1 in England and Wales, and though decapitation has not been mentioned, the reaction has been anything but mild. Across Britain last week, furious crowds stormed local government chambers, burned Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in effigy, looted stores and battled police. Scores were arrested and dozens injured...
Amid all the ruckus, Rooney should be happy to return to his weekly musings on trivia like junk mail and vacuum cleaners. And how contrite is the curmudgeonly commentator? "I'm furious about the race issue," he says. "As for homosexual insensitivity, I suspect I'm guilty." His reinstatement proved at least two things. Insensitivity to homosexuals is a pardonable offense, even at the skittish networks. And TV executives should think twice before tangling with a star...
With less than two minutes gone by in thesecond, Friar freshman sensation Cammi Granatounleashed a furious slapshot which Harvard goalieGillian D'Souza was unable to get enough of,putting Providence...