Word: furiousness
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...bookshop with which I had an account. The house was very quiet. There was not the slightest sound or movement anywhere, almost as if everything in the house were waiting helplessly for its own destruction. Suddenly the doorbell began to ring incessantly. At the same time, there was a furious pounding of many fists on my front gate, accompanied by hysterical voices shouting slogans. The cacophony told me that the time of waiting was over and that I must face the Red Guards. ''Open the gate!'' someone shouted. ''Are you all dead? Why don't you open the gate...
...murder in the eyes -- they were too innocent for that -- but there was something more difficult to know, a dreamy glaze, an enamel of unseeing. He and the other Palestinians, none older than 15 or so, came round and pounded on the car with fists. Their indignation was furious, but also a sort of abstraction, and mixed in it a fierce atmosphere of carnival, an electricity of freedom and breaking loose -- up out of nonentity into entity, a violent flowering of the heart, a burst of flame. A moment before, they had been hurling stones at a Volkswagen van that...
...successor to the aggressively pious Increase Mather, Class of 1656, the Corporation finally ended up in 1708 with John Leverett, Class of 1680, Harvard’s first lay president and its first lawyer. Cotton Mather, Class of 1678, who had hoped to succeed his father, was so furious at this rejection that he combined with like-minded dissidents to found a college in the Connecticut colony which would eventually settle at New Haven. The last clerical president, the Reverend Thomas Hill, Class of 1847, who resigned in 1868 to accept a better-paying job as minister of the First...
...taxable income. Making a portion of these benefits taxable, Bush the Elder reckoned, was a smart way to pay for health care for folks who had none. But G.O.P. leaders were apoplectic. Didn't Bush understand that a tax hike meant political death? The uproar was so swift and furious that White House staffers spent the night using razor blades to excise the offending page from printed budgets...
...outraged, disgusted and furious that the Reagan Administration could even conceive the idea of an arms deal with the Khomeini regime, much less negotiate one. In my opinion, the U.S. has no greater enemy in the world than Iran. David P. Sorrell Duluth...