Word: furiously
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...wished to remain anonymous because his estimate deviates from the official line, thinks at least half the attackers were killed. He put the losses among police and troops at more than 30, with about the same number of civilian deaths. Those who saw Putin that day say he was furious at news of the assault. He issued crisp instructions that anyone bearing arms in the city who resisted arrest should be "eliminated." But the Nalchik raid has forced the Kremlin to confront the fact that it is fighting a war on more fronts than just Chechnya. Despite regular announcements...
...momentum had swung back to the side of the Crimson. After a furious second-half rally, Harvard appeared to be on the verge of forcing overtime. But the Big Red had other ideas. Kuda Wekwete scored for Cornell (3-4-2, 2-0-0 Ivy) with 37 seconds left in the game to lead the Big Red over the Crimson 3-2 Saturday night in Ithaca. For Harvard, it was the third straight defeat after winning the previous three in a row and dropped the squad to 4-4-1, 0-2-0 on the season...
...When the Pakistani army finally arrived on the third day, they found the local people furious over the delay. The soldiers were cursed, and at one school where 200 children lay buried under concrete slabs, the parents hurled stones at the troops as they tried, days too late, to clear away the rubble. By day four, enough troops had arrived to set up field clinics and start evacuating the injured by helicopter. Hundreds waited for evacuation, and each helicopter could carry only a few stretchers...
...soldiers force Turner to make some split-second decisions. While an Afghan interpreter tries to clear away local onlookers, the captain is busy on the radio. The medevac helicopter for the wounded soldiers has yet to leave the Kandahar airfield despite multiple promises that the chopper was en route. Furious that his men's lives might be endangered by the delay, Turner curses over the radio, then turns to a reporter and says, "Please don't let my mother know I'm using these swear words...
...know what you’re thinking—Jodie Foster running franticly through a tightly confined space, driven only by a furious maternal instinct to protect her daughter: I saw this one already, back when it was called “Panic Room.” Well, maybe, but that’s not reason enough to skip “Flightplan,” especially since the formula’s been retooled and improved upon...