Search Details

Word: furiousness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...periods the penalties and the penalty-killing provided the story. But it was the third period of the overtime, which featured furious skating and many of the year's most ferocious checks, that provided the heart-thumping action and ultimately decided the difference...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Overtime Goal Lifts Icemen Over B.U. | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...Tompsett's voice is low and well-modulated with a slight Southern softening, and though she tries to shrill, her slummy "Garn..." resonates with upper-class tonality. You can't make a sow's ear out of a silk purse. Only in scenes when Eliza is supposed to be furious with Higgins does Tompsett cast of her placid demeanor, and then she sizzles: her eyes splash cyanide when she seethes, "Just You Wait, 'enry 'iggins." She cannot sustain her fury, however; when Higgins dishes strawberry tarts to the bird and not to her, she looks only mildly miffed. Not even...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: My Frumpy Lady | 11/8/1979 | See Source »

...then senior Justice, William O. Douglas. The most liberal member of the court, Douglas wanted to base the decision on a broad constitutional right to privacy. Burger preferred a more narrowly drawn opinion, one that would invite the states to replace rigid with less restrictive abortion laws. As a furious Douglas accused Burger of abusing the assigning power, the Chief gave the opinion to Blackmun, a Justice who had voted so often with Burger that he was nicknamed "Hip Pocket Harry'' by the clerks; indeed, Burger and Blackmun, former schoolmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Inside the High Court | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...furious, just furious," Harvard coach Edie MacAusland said. "My players were falling down left and right...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Stickwomen Stung by Yale, 3-1, Amid Complaints of Officiating | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

...that no doubt still remain hidden in that spacious closet. But he wants the record set straight--or at least set it his way--on the CIA's involvement in Watergate. Helms says Nixon fired him in 1973 and banished him to Iran (as ambassador) because the President was furious when Helms refused to enlist the CIA in the Watergate cover-up. The CIA was not directly behind the break-in (though some who were had worked for the Agency), says Helms, and the facts seem to back...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: The Company He Kept | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

Previous | 338 | 339 | 340 | 341 | 342 | 343 | 344 | 345 | 346 | 347 | 348 | 349 | 350 | 351 | 352 | 353 | 354 | 355 | 356 | 357 | 358 | Next