Word: furiousness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Publicly, State Department officials stayed mum on the leak and tried to shift attention back to American support for the Pakistani-led efforts to negotiate a political settlement for Afghanistan. Privately, however, they were furious. They were worried that the revelation would embarrass the Pakistanis into cracking down on the arms shipments. "Successful covert actions must be kept quiet," snapped one official. "That's why they're covert." Some State Department hands speculated that the leak was designed to highlight the Administration's involvement in a popular cause like Afghanistan, where the Soviet threat is unambiguous...
...reputation as "gullible and morbidly interested in Nazi paraphernalia." Heidemann, Maser said, had once berated him for claiming in a book review that Hitler had been fully aware of the mass executions of Jews, and had even wanted them speeded up. Heidemann was "furious" and accused him of smearing "the Führer's" name, contends Maser...
...comes without recriminations. Pringle offers his son a poignant farewell. "Because it seems important that even a child should leave a legacy, I say, 'Everybody I know talks about how tough old E is.' " Eric responds with resolve in his last hours. "Suddenly this depleted child is furious, twisting and jerking in my arms. 'I can't hold my breath. I can't, I can't.' 'Who's telling you to hold your breath?' I ask. 'God,' he says simply...
Trevor-Roper explains that he gave particular weight to a remark Hitler had made to Hans Baur, his personal pilot, who has written that Hitler became furious when he learned that the flight had crashed. "In that plane were all my private archives, what I had intended as a testimony for posterity!" Hitler shouted. "It is a catastrophe...
There is scarcely a discernible connection between the improvisers' tales. Usually after a bout of vicious lovemaking, each bard tells a snippet of a story. A Russian seduces a teen-age Polish gymnast on an ocean liner; an Armenian American on a pilgrimage to Soviet Armenia makes furious love with her guide. The lengthiest improvisation is narrated by the poet Surkov, who fancies he is Pushkin incarnate. After a jealous scene with Pushkin's wife, he retells the master's unfinished tale, Egyptian Nights, followed by a parodic string of bromides: "Her black eyes flashed...