Word: furiousness
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...Revelation. "Dear Bobbo," Margery wrote, "Don't be furious about getting a card. I promise a letter next time. I wanted you to see the incredible and fascinating city we were in. With all the training we had we really were not prepared for the squalor and absolutely primitive living conditions rampant both in the city and the bush. We had no idea what 'underdeveloped' meant...
With that decision, all unwitting, she sets her foot on the road of experience that spirals down the magic mountain of childhood, down into a world without hockey, a world where she is suddenly evil and cruel as well as good and kind, where a furious mistress throws champagne in her face and a busboy (David Saire) tries to rape her and she herself in a girlish pique betrays the Englishman to the police, and only the next day discovers that she loves him. "I'll never love anyone else!" she sobs as the road seems suddenly...
...Congress Building. "If I could tear that down, Brazil would be better governed," he said. Three weeks ago he told an aide that he had a good mind to resign when Congress, after allowing 19 Quadros vetoes to stand, overruled Veto No. 20. "He was furious," says the aide...
...story begins, the pretty ragazza is running away from her bandleader boy friend with a highborn brat who promises to make her a movie star. After five days of fun and games, the young nob suddenly gets bored, takes what the Italians call English leave. Furious, the girl pursues him, finds out where he lives, rings his doorbell. Appalled, the playboy tells his 16-year-old brother (Jacques Perrin) to answer the door and get rid of the dame. But the boy is everything big brother is not: innocent, sensitive, idealistic. He is horrified at his brother's subhumanity...
...bogs and fens. Commercial trappers are not interested in its fur: the nutria vogue in Britain declined some years ago. A few British restaurants serve coypu (whose taste resembles veal), thoroughly disguised as "Argentine hare." But the coypu's only real enemy is England's furious farmer who, prevented by law from using poison-which would also kill off harmless animal life-prowls the marsh with trap and gun. "There's no trouble catching them," says E. A. Ellis, secretary of the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust. "The coypu is mentally slow. Once caught he just waits...