Word: furiousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through three furious days of politicking, not one committeeman had any real praise for Tom Dewey. Even Hugh Scott, fighting to save his own neck, scrubbed frantically to wash off the Dewey colors. Dewey, he cried, "should not, could not, and will not be a candidate in 1952 . . . We've suffered because we tried to me-too the New Deal. I announce here and now that there's an end to that." No one else had a good word for me-tooism either: most everyone talked as if the party only needed to have been forthrightly conservative...
...joint cloud study program of the services and G.E.) has been very successful, said Dr. Langmuir. Thirty-five of its cloud-seeding flights changed super cooled clouds* into ice or snow crystals. Last October, at Albuquerque, two large cumulus clouds were sprinkled with dry ice. They turned into a furious thunderstorm that drenched Albuquerque with heavy rain at a time of year when rain is uncommon...
...Manhattan last week, R. H. Macy & Co. was hawking an odd item-dish towels made of old flour bags. And they were selling at a furious clip (30,000 in ten shopping days). Sears, Roebuck & Co. was also advertising them in its new spring catalogue (and sales were brisk). In groceries, housewives were buying flour in 25-lb. bags that had sewn-in drawstrings; the buyer had only to unstitch a seam and she had a gaily printed cotton apron. Across the U.S., thousands of women, following instructions in special pattern books, were turning similar dress-printed bags into clothes...
...Chinese war since 1931 without learning a few things about censors. Last week the knowledge came in handy. When the first Chinese Communist shells exploded in Peiping, Associated Press Correspondent Moosa tried to tell the world. The Nationalist censor said no. So Old China Hand Moosa banged out a furious message to the A.P. explaining why he couldn't report that Peiping was under bombardment. The censor passed it-and Moosa had his beat. Excerpts...
Father Franz Joseph was more furious than grief-stricken when he heard the news. Years before, a tailor had tried to kill him, and ever since he had used the word "tailor" to describe anything that he considered utterly contemptible. So now he shrieked: "My son died like a tailor!" -and proceeded to suppress the story. Mary Vetsera was buried secretly. As for Rudolph: "His Imperial and Royal Highness [has] died suddenly of heart failure," said the Court communiqu...