Word: furiousness
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...SUPPOSE THE COLUMNIST decides that he is tougher and smarter than the candidate; that the candidate himself is an outsider, whose sources of information and standing on the machismo ladder are inferior to the journalist's. Then the columnist becomes a suffering and occasionally furious papa, lecturing the candidate as if he were a twelve year...
...race got under way, Wottle ran dead last for 500 meters, but was finally inspired by the sight of the favorite, Russia's Yevgeny Arzhanov, beginning his furious kick on the bell...
...legislature, hoping, to find new ways to squeeze blood from anemic taxpayers, passed a levy on stock-pension plan offered only by universities, which substantially worsened the bite on professorial retirement pay. Since the bill passed late in the session furious efforts to urge reconsideration of the measure were dimmed by the press of legislation, and only "the House rescinded the measure. We hope to get it passed in the Senate this session." Schmidt said last week...
...15th game proved a refreshing respite from the week's extracurricular infighting. Fischer, playing black, again fell behind in the early going. Then, beginning with a daring pawn sacrifice on his 28th move, he engaged Spassky in a furious battle that equalized their forces. Playing brilliantly under fire, Spassky countered with a checkmating threat that after 43 moves forced each player to accept one-half point for a draw. That gave Fischer a 9-6 lead (he needs 12½ points to win the match, Spassky needs 12) and led Arpad Elo, official statistician for the World Chess Federation...
...Senate Office Building, cradling the phone as he took calls from friends, political associates and downright strangers, ex-Nominee Tom Eagleton was probably more relaxed than he had ever been during his frenetic political career. Gone were the trembles that sometimes appeared during his brief and furious reign on the Democratic ticket. At times his manner was a bit too bluff and hearty, sometimes wistful, but rarely if ever self-pitying. "For seven days in a row, I was under the greatest pressure I've ever been in my life," he told TIME'S Jess Cook with...