Word: furiousness
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...spectacle was a startling confirmation of the substantial changes that have occurred in American attitudes toward the Roman Catholic Church and the papacy. One has only to imagine the nation's furious reception if Pope Pius XII had appeared in America 30 years ago: Congressmen would have introduced resolutions denouncing the visit; angry pickets would have greeted the Pontiff at every stop. It would have seemed un thinkable to invite him to the White House...
...Patrick Lucey in overseeing the broad range of issues that have arisen between the two countries, announced that the U.S. was seeking a $3 million contribution from Mexico for the oil cleanup. Alas, the announcement was made public before the Mexicans had received the request through diplomatic channels. A furious López Portillo ordered his Foreign Ministry to issue a seven-paragraph statement flatly rejecting the request on the ground that it had no basis in international...
...more is involved than dollars, and ABC, which considers itself the sports network, believes the Olympics are important to its prestige. It has televised the past three Olympics and was furious that in the last bidding NBC captured the rights to the 1980 Moscow Olympics for $87 million. ABC was determined not to let that happen again...
...Baltimore Orioles scored eight runs in the first two innings and held off a furious California Angel comeback to win the second game of the American League Championship Series, at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore...
Regrettably, the film spends a great deal of time in detailing the not very illuminating background of everyone involved in the incident. (It does, how ever, offer Woods a chance to give a splendid performance as a psychopath -jaunty, furious, ingratiating, ignorant and intelligent in bewildering turns.) The film's deliberate piling up of superfluous minutiae tends to have a numbing effect even before the characters get down to the main business of the plot: the murder and its endless afterlife in court...