Word: furiousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bama Companies, a $140 million Tulsa, Okla., frozen-dough-and-pie concern that started in her grandmother's kitchen in 1927, the road to success has been studded with familial potholes. When Marshall-Chapman took over from her father in 1984, her two brothers were furious that they would not be involved in running the show. The business was changed from a corporation to a partnership, with Marshall-Chapman named general partner. Her parents Lilah and Paul Marshall took their equity out of the business to live on. The structure of the general partnership left the business strapped for cash...
...turn to an old friend, "a super shrink who encouraged me to accept my own perceptions and not to assume I was the one who was crazy." Ultimately she became president of an increasingly successful company. But she never told her father about the therapy. "He would have been furious," she admits, "if he knew any analysis was going...
...Brocker Street resident called CPD to report that a Springfield resident became angry and argumentative when he had to wait in line at Burger King. The suspect was told to go to the back of the line. The suspect became furious and said that he would be back to shoot the reporting person...
...fire stray shots at Al Gore, and the former president would testily shush her. "What are you doing?" he asked her at one point. "You're not going to be in this interview if you're going to start talking like that. George will call and he'll be furious." The interview sounded like the pilot for a sitcom...
Civilized as he was, and ostentatiously well- read, Montaigne could be crude and hilarious (about sex and other bodily functions, for example) in a way that would make the 21st-century reader feel right at home. I like to think our furious, entertaining moral arguments are doing something like Montaigne's work. I hope so. Otherwise, they are just brutal, stupid, dogmatic noise...