Word: furiousness
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...bosses were furious, astonished. Even victorious France and Britain were maintaining stiff controls to ration their meager austerity. From existing legal supplies each West German could expect to get one pair of shorts every 18 years, one pair of socks every 29 years, a suit every 98 years. "How dare you relax our rationing system when you have a shortage of goods?" raged one officer. Replied Erhard jubilantly: "I have not relaxed rationing; I have abolished it." To his countrymen he proclaimed: "The only ration ticket now is the mark." He asked for an interview with U.S. General Lucius Clay...
Third Party? In the South, furious Democrats first lashed at Ike, then almost as quickly at their Northern cousins. One of the loudest spokesmen was South Carolina's jaded Jimmy Byrnes. Attorney General Brownell had pushed Ike into action, Byrnes said, because Brownell was frightened by "the high command of the national Democratic Party" and its attacks on the President's do-nothing attitude. In the high command he identified National Chairman Paul Butler, Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, New York's Governor Averell Harriman and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams. "Goaded" by these Democrats...
...Sugar Ray Robinson, 37, four-time middleweight champion of the world, earned close to $500,000 for 15 rounds of fist fighting in which he showed an admirable capacity for absorbing punishment and a furious skill at dishing it out. Round after round, Challenger Carmen Basilio, 30, plodded in to belt his man from heart to haircut, and Robinson fired back with deadly effect. Basilio's head bobbed like a light punching bag at the end of Robinson's jackhammer jab. He started the fight sullen with 5 o'clock shadow; he finished looking like...
Fury in the North. The North, which has its own segregation faults, watched and smoldered with resentment. A Long Island summer-theater audience heard South Pacific Heroine Nellie Forbush say she was from Little Rock, stopped the performance with three minutes of furious boos and hisses. A drugstore clerk in Philadelphia admitted to human dilemma: "I don't like Negroes and God knows I'd hate to have to live with them-but I can't help thinking how awful it would be if my little girls had to go through a mob to be cursed...
...songs (Stardust, Sunday, Monday or Always) that made him the life of the frat at Dartmouth in 1928. In Nola he throws a right hand wide in a high, lacy filigree, forgets what he started to say, drops the whole idea and piles into the middle again with furious drive. As for his wife and partner Darlene, she sounds as if she were singing in a closet through several folds of cheesecloth. In songs like Autumn in New York and You're Blasé, she launches into the lyrics exquisitely off pitch, gropes up and down the scale...