Word: furiousness
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...Durrant-Atwill, displaying zeal above and beyond the couch, arranges the kidnaping of a famed British conductor on his way to a continental music festival, enabling George Conway to palm himself off on the foreign orchestra as the great man himself, and to scourge the players through many a furious rehearsal. It ends happily ever after with Uncle George not only promoted to Assistant Secretary to the Ministry but also appointed official "guest-conductor" to Europe's finest orchestra...
...cried openly at his concerts; in Leningrad, where fans queued up for three days and nights to buy tickets, one fell out of her seat in a faint. When Moscow TV scheduled only the first half of Van's prizewinning performance, the advance protest from Muscovites was so furious that the station scheduled the whole recital, plus encores. Thereafter, in each of the four cities where Van played on his Russian tour, his performance was broadcast on local TV and radio. Russians by the millions have learned to spot Van's most distinctive trademark-his great shock...
...held up Ella and her eleven-man troupe for almost two hours on a luggage search (object of the hunt: unspecified contraband), cut open toothpaste tubes, analyzed a bottle of vitamin pills belonging to Bassist Ray Brown, tried to probe the large (225 Ibs.) person of Songstress Fitzgerald. Furious, Ella shouted: "I've been a million places but never saw anything like this!", later calmed down over the reaction of her first audience, which yowled for encores, went home only when Pianist Oscar Peterson, in desperation, played God Save the Queen...
...more than the will of the sovereign. Sir Edward Coke immortalized Bracton's words-"Rex non debet esse sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege" (The king ought not to be under man, but under God and the law)-by flinging them in the furious face of absolutist James I. Then Coke fell to his knees in terror of losing his head-yet his doctrine lives today as the wellspring of the rule...
...deeper a Congressman gets in the political slugging matches and slogans of Washington, the farther away he tends to get from home. This week many a member of Congress headed back to the capital from the midsession recess, surprised at how far Congress had got from home in the furious battle for prestige in dealing with the recession. Around the U.S., TIME-LIFE correspondents caught up with Senators and Congressmen on homecoming rounds, reported these net findings...