Word: furiousness
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...patrol, a thin line of 1st Division infantrymen, moved warily through the jungles of Tay Ninh province one humid morning last week. Deep in Viet Cong territory, the lonely Americans posed a tempting target. Finally, at high noon, the Viet Cong yielded to the temptation. Under cover of a furious mortar assault, they attacked in force. Almost immediately, U.S. artillery that had been covering the patrol's advance opened up on the hitherto-hidden Viet Cong mortar emplacements. Within minutes, Allied planes were bombing and strafing the enemy attackers. Besieged by shells and 40 lethal air strikes, the battered...
...Crane-DeGuglielmo feud has been a hard one for the CCA to handle. DeGuglielmo, a former city councillor mavor, and prominent Democrat, carefully planned political coup early in 1966 which, after a furious fight on the floor of the City Council, ended in a 5-4 vote to make him city manager. The dismissed manager of 14 years, John Curry, was a close friend of Crane and had leaned heavily on the advice of the four-time mayor...
...Philadelphians doubt that Specter will win. Polls by Psephologist E. John Bucci, who predicted the gubernatorial victories of both William Scranton and Raymond Shafer, peg Specter as a 2-to-l favorite over any other candidate. Meanwhile, the Democrats, badly split after five years of lackluster leadership, face a furious primary dogfight...
...furious," Glimp remembers. "It was just the way I had pictured Harvard, an old Yankee insulting young Idaho." But he did it, and got scared, and worked harder, just making it through his freshman year...
...first big movie, she shyly refused, then, unbeknownst to him, just joined the crowd outside. She still takes the bus to his openings. "She used to tell me proudly how she had sat next to a real fine lady," says Caine. "It would make me bloody furious, and I'd ask her how she knew it was a fine lady. 'Because the lady had a gold watch and a diamond ring.' So I bought her a gold watch and a diamond ring, and she hasn't mentioned fine ladies since...