Word: furiousness
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...gunfire began immediately, the two sides firing almost simultaneously. Bullets cut swaths through the walls of the house. Blue smoke belched through the windows as those inside replied with automatic fire of their own. For nearly an hour the firefight went on, one of the most furious gun battles ever waged in a U.S. city, with at least 1,000 rounds of ammunition expended by both sides...
...that contest, a Harvard oarsman caught a massive crab in the first ten strokes of the race, leaving the Crimson a length behind with the race hardly begun. The Tigers staved off a furious Crimson charge at the finish and held on to win by the narrowest of margins, a scant .2 seconds...
...dance marathon allegory might become tiresome except for the brilliance of Jane Fond's performance. She's best at jabbing out with neurotic intelligence, sharp enough to project that she knows her own mind is her worst enemy--the battle goes on before our very eyes, the nervous twitch furious with itself. Fonda is the smartest screen actress we have now. This film was the first chance she got (or took, anyway) to drown the brainless sex-kitten, and her work here almost equals the wonder of Klute's Bree Daniels...
...game at Milwaukee, the Boston Celtics, trailing by as many as 16 points in the first half, staged a furious second-half comeback, only to fall just short, losing to the Milwaukee Bucks, 105-96, in overtime before a capacity crowd at the Civic Center...
Armchair View. It was still not known whether Patty had actually been won over to the band's vague philosophy, with its Maoist cant and its dedication to deadly terrorism. There was furious debate, despite the 1,200 photographs snapped by the bank's cameras during the five-minute robbery, over whether Patty had willingly participated. In Washington, Attorney General William Saxbe, whose foot-in-mouth disease seems to be becoming increasingly virulent, gratuitously offered his armchair Sherlock Holmes view that the girl was "not a reluctant participant," and labeled all bank robbers, including Patty, "common criminals." Reacting angrily, Hearst...