Word: furiously
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Powers calls the 1968 Harvard-Yale game the greatest game ever played in the stadium, a 29-29 tie, in which the Crimson made a furious 16-point rally in the final minute. The pressure on Harvard coaches was enormous, Powers said...
...rest of his money to public education, preferably in Detroit. After doing some research, he offered $200 million to build 15 small, independent public high schools in the inner city. A few weeks ago, Thompson withdrew his offer after the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) led a furious, and scurrilous, campaign against his generosity. The philanthropist is in seclusion now-friends say he is stunned and distressed-but his is a story that deserves telling...
Many in the State Department, including the U.S. special envoy to Bosnian peace talks and the U.S. ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina, were furious. The Washington Post reported on Sept. 1, 1994, “What State Department officials found especially disturbing was a photograph of Clark and Mladic wearing each other’s caps. The picture appeared in several European newspapers, U.S. officials said. Clark accepted as gifts Mladic’s hat, a bottle of brandy and a pistol inscribed in Cyrillic, U.S. officials said. ‘It’s like cavorting with Hermann Goering...
Ralph Nader would be furious to hear me talking this way. He’d argue that I should vote for the truly progressive candidate, because there’d be no difference between Clark and Bush anyway. Four years ago, I believed Nader when he gave me the same rap about Al Gore and Bush. Since then, I’ve realized that Nader was either lying to get more votes, had no clue how much of a maniac Bush really was, or both. Sure, maybe Gore would have cut social programs, given tax refunds to the rich...
...seems paralyzed, unable to stanch the political, diplomatic and actual bleeding over Iraq. There are turf wars everywhere. The CIA is at war with the White House; the Pentagon is at war with the State Department and the National Security Council (NSC); some elements of the uniformed military are furious with the civilian leadership of the Pentagon, partly for launching the attack against Iraq in the first place without enough allied support. The fault lines are largely between moderate diplomatic and military traditionalists and more aggressive neoconservatives and nationalists...