Word: furiousness
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Harvard, obviously, did not fold. Instead, the Crimson mounted a furious comeback, sparked by a beautiful individual effort by captain Kenny Smith and spurred on by the play of the Crimson’s ‘big’ guns—Welch, assistant captain Tyler Kolarik, and senior forward Tim Pettit...
McAuliffe led the way with four points, scoring one goal and three assists in Harvard’s furious second period strike...
...Where both antecedent sports offer nearly continuous action, American football amounts to brief periods of furious motion squeezed in between meetings (or huddles as they are called by initiates). This innovation is both comforting and familiar for legions of middle managers across this great land for whom meetings have ritual significance (in the sense that they represent something you have to do that produces no discernible results). During these meetings the CEO - the coach - delivers his instructions to his chief operating officer - the quarterback - who is expected to deliver quarterly results. A football quarter is calculated in minutes rather than...
McAuliffe led the way with four points, scoring one goal and three assists in Harvard’s furious second period strike...
...public services without raising taxes - would stand rejected by his own M.P.s. "Disastrous" is how a senior aide envisioned that scenario last week. Then there's Lord Hutton, who releases his exhaustive report into the suicide of David Kelly, the government weapons scientist who found himself caught in a furious row between Downing Street and the BBC over whether Blair oversold the case for war in Iraq. A direct finding that Blair lied when he denied any role in "outing" Kelly's name to reporters - a conceivable outcome, based on the public evidence put before Hutton - would make...