Word: furiousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Minority Leader Dick Gephardt looked the worst last week, recessing their chamber early so technicians could sweep their side of the Capitol complex for traces of anthrax. They're still furious at Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who received the anthrax- laced letter but announced that terrorists wouldn't scare the Senate into recessing early. (Hastert and Gephardt insist that Daschle reneged on an agreement the House and Senate leaders had at the beginning of last week to quit early. Daschle insists he never made such an agreement. Just for the record, Senate Minority Leader...
...Records today, New York has generated quite a bit of musical history and tradition. Of course there are the obvious songs and performances: Frank Sinatra belting out "New York, New York," Billy Joel?s warmhearted "New York State of Mind," and Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five?s lyrical tourguide "New York, New York"(the lyrics to that last one: "Ah New York New York big city of dreams/ And everything in New York ain't always what it seems/ You might get fooled if you come from out of town/ But I'm down...
...Arafat has plenty of difficulties of his own. Last Monday his police sparked a furious reaction across the West Bank and Gaza when they shot dead three anti-American demonstrators. Many local leaders of his own Fatah movement on Friday joined the Islamists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad for peaceful marches protesting the U.S. air raids on Afghanistan, and there is little enthusiasm on the Palestinian streets for renewed dialogue with the Israelis...
...right questions." Houston pastor Ed Young elaborates: "What do I know about God, who am I, where did I come from, why am I here, where am I going?" A second tier of issues has arisen around the question of war. Muslims and others have been doing furious research on the concept of jihad. Traditional antiwar denominations like Quakers and Church of the Brethren are challenging the more common Christian concept of the just war. Some mainline Protestants, Buddhists and other religious liberals have begun peace initiatives. Many conservative Christians are speculating about the Apocalypse, and sales of the apocalyptic...
...movie opens with a telephone conversation between University of California Berkeley student Lewis Thomas (Paul Walker of The Fast and the Furious) and his female friend Venna (Leelee Sobieski of The Glass House). When Venna tells Lewis that she has broken up with her boyfriend and that she needs a road trip to “decompress” before arriving home, Lewis immediately agrees to pick her up, selling his plane ticket home in order to buy a very old used car with which to chauffeur her. However, he has not traveled far before he receives news that...