Word: furiousness
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...trip to Washington last month, Abbas made the spectacular claim that Hamas - sworn by its charter to destroy Israel - had agreed to recognize the Jewish State. Abbas had hardly spoken the words before they were denied by a Hamas spokesman. A furious Abbas accused the Islamists of reneging on a deal, and also of sabotaging an Egyptian-brokered prisoner exchange that would return the Israeli soldier kidnapped on June 25 in Gaza and free nearly 1,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails...
...shoves and blistered toes are the norm, screaming is assumed appropriate, and broken bottles signify accomplishment rather than an accident. Definitively immoderate and possibly injurious, raging is an angry exertion, one neither easy on the lungs nor the liver. But the questions remain: Why did having fun become so furious? And what are we so mad at?It could just be the alcohol. Rage denotes drink and drinking portends problems. Doesn’t being under the influence basically beget a brawl? We don’t drink because we’re angry, the logic goes, we?...
NICHOLSON: That's the moment you see me get out of character. I'm f___ing furious with my lighter, trying to light colored water on fire. You ever try to light water on fire...
...Jospin, whose disdain for Royal's approach led him to challenge her for the party nomination. (He withdrew from the race last week, removing a major hurdle for Royal.) An adviser to Strauss-Kahn issues a similar criticism: "What the polls measure is popularity, not competence. Socialists have a furious love of debate, and she's not debating. What does she think about debt, about foreign policy, about economic governance? You've got to talk about this stuff. And you can't talk to party activists like you do to public opinion...
...protected the latter from losing his job. McClintick quotes a Summers deposition in which the former president said that he instructed then and current Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles to hold on to Shleifer in 2001. The article startled and angered many professors, who grew even more furious when Summers, at a February 2006 Faculty meeting, said he didn’t know enough about the matter to comment...