Word: furiousness
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...ready to accept the French proposal. Thus Kissinger believed that he still had time to dissuade the Market's leaders from going ahead with the conference. When he was informed on March 4 that the EEC had formally agreed to the French proposal, he was furious...
...shot only 25 per cent from the floor in the first half, and went without a field goal for over eight minutes. Down by 17 with about 14 minutes to go, the Eagles mounted a furious full-court press against Connecticut, which was trying to slow the pace down...
When the Harvard Swim Team placed second in the Eastern Seaboard Intercollegiate Championship two weeks ago, sophomore Hess Yntema turned in a spectacular performance winning three individual titles and almost pulling out a Harvard championship with a furious finish in the tournament's concluding 400-yard relay...
...acquisition of Hartford Fire Insurance Co. nearly four years ago has long been a financial and political cause célèbre. It was the biggest merger in American corporate history, and has been the subject of furious controversy concerning the circumstances under which the Justice Department settled an antitrust suit that had sought to break up the combination. Last week, after the dispute had finally faded, the Internal Revenue Service suddenly revived it.The IRS had paved the way for the merger in the first place by ruling that the insurance company's owners did not have...
...Senator. When L.B.J. was President, he wanted to appoint Jaworski Attorney General. But sensitive to charges of cronyism, the President reluctantly named Ramsey Clark instead. By conservative Texas standards, in fact, Jaworski has often been a maverick. He defended a liberal school-board member who was under furious attack from conservatives, and he was chosen to prosecute former Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett for criminal contempt for trying to block desegregation...