Word: furiousness
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...Scruggs, Viet Nam veteran who conceived and raised funds for the proposed Viet Nam Veterans Memorial, on congressional criticism of it: "You can get furious seeing politicians getting involved, with two out in the bottom of the ninth, with not one red cent from Uncle Sam involved and with thousands of parents writing and telling how they can't wait to visit this remembrance of their dead sons...
...trip to Alaska and then sent a destroyer to retrieve it. "Of course, I don't resent attacks, and my family doesn't resent attacks, but Fala does resent them," Roosevelt told a guffawing campaign audience. "You know, Fala is Scotch and . . . his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since...
...family reunions turn into harpoon fests. That is precisely what happens in this seriocomic British play that is having its U.S. premiere under the auspices of the Philadelphia Drama Guild at the Annenberg Center's Zellerbach Theater. All the characters are moving targets, and the barbs are fast, furious and maliciously funny. Bernard (Joseph Maher), the father and pivotal figure of the play, is in a double state of decline: carking middle age and advancing penury...
Black members of the Administration (only 18 now holding positions that require Senate confirmation) were furious. Said one: "The real question is whether it is the intention of this Administration to appear antiblack. If so, they should just let us know." Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, who fumed that he would not allow the President to be perceived as a racist, argued that the Administration had to defuse the issue by proposing new legislation to forbid the practice that had been instituted the previous week. Reagan agreed. A spokesman said the proposed legislation would bar tax breaks...
...union were becoming unbearable; martial law, not yet imposed, was only days away. He had been awakened at 4 a.m. by a Solidarity delegation from the city of Radom, which warned him it was going to call a general strike that would affect an important armaments factory. Walesa was furious to find such a strike was being considered, and the men had argued for hours. At breakfast, he made peace with the delegation, which agreed to put off the strike. "lam absolutely finished and run down," he said later. "I have more problems than the hairs on my head." Then...