Word: furiousness
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...features that might have been carved by Gutzon Berglum. Intolerant of lawyers who strayed from the point or became too verbose. Judge Hand sent wayward attorneys scampering back to the facts with an acid query-"May I inquire, sir, what are you trying to tell us?"-or just a furious "Rubbish!"' Once, confronting the ferocious old judge at a Yale Law School moot court, a terrified student fainted dead away...
...museum,*sneaked through a small window on the second floor, spirited away six canvases from one gallery and two from another while Mme. Martial-Salme and her husband slept a few yards away. Wailed the show's organizer. Leo Marchutz, next day: "Cezanne would be furious if he were alive...
...tragic lot, Rondon established the Indian Protection Service, inspired his men to live up to the service's creed: "Die If You Must. But Never Kill." One of them, a Brazilian of German extraction named Harold Shult?, heroically applied this principle after a brave of the Xavante tribe, furious because Shultz had no gift for him, plunged a knife hilt-deep in Shultz's shoulder. Seriously wounded, Shultz made his way back to civilization, returned the following year, one arm hanging useless, to bestow a shiny new knife on his assailant. The shamed tribe made Shultz a member...
...headed Khrushchev off at an exit, got a 1 hour-48 minute interview. Mutual proudly aired 4 minutes of her tape, but suspended Lisa after listeners protested that the interview-primed by such naive questions as "What is your definition of freedom?"-was packed with propaganda for K. Furious, Lisa fought back. Within a day she was reinstated. Says Lisa: "If some people resent me, maybe it's because I work harder than anyone else. I'll get beaten up and practically kill myself to get a story." Sometimes, her viewers wonder if it is worth the effort...
...Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany, some three months after the prince's father, Kaiser Wilhelm, had entered World War I: "Willie said to me, 'My dear Wiegand, you must tell Papa that we have lost the war. Every time I attempt to tell him, he gets furious...