Word: livid
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...that there is any known way to avoid these exchanges. One has books; one has friends; they are bound to meet. Charles Lamb, who rarely railed, waxed livid on the subject: "Your borrowers of books-those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes." But how are such people to be put off, since they are often we, and the non-return of borrowed books is a custom as old as books themselves? ("Say, Gutenberg, what's this? And may I borrow it?") It is said that Charles I clutched a Bible...
...real life. The city won't let him in even though he'd like to conform, and the fever builds first in his belly and then in his head, making him restless like an animal and nervous like a killer. He hates New York with Biblical fury. Its livid neons, the gaudy robes of the pimps, and the twisting, seething shadows obsess him with a vision of hell...
...people by Iran can never be condoned. These criminal acts ought to be condemned by all law-loving, decent people of the world. It has been an abominable circumstance that will never be forgotten." He denounced the captors as "terrorists" who had committed a "despicable act of savagery." Still livid as he penned a report to the new President, while flying back across the Atlantic, Carter wrote: "Never do any favors for the hoodlums who persecuted innocent American heroes." And he told reporters: "Those were acts of animals, almost...
Meanwhile, Harvard refuses to deal with anyone but Crockett, who maintains to Powers that he is still president. HUERA's executive board is livid, and files suit in Middlesex Superior Court in an attempt to get an injunction which would restrain Crockett from conducting union business...
...Kennedy presence would still linger for the last two days of the convention, but it was not until the final evening that the underlying tensions surfaced sharply once again. When Kennedy was the last to arrive on the platform, barely concealing his discomfort, the President's men were livid. Kennedy's strained be havior caused among Carter's crew a whole new surge of anger against him. Now Carter's managers knew there was no real reconciliation, if one had ever been possible. They could expect only token support in the fall. But the fight that...