Word: livid
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...first I was confused by your beauty, by those great golden long-legged girls. So shy at first before your metallic eyes, your frosted smile So shy. And the anguish in the depths of skyscraper streets Lifting eyes hawkhooded to the sun's eclipse. Sulphurous your light and livid the towers with heads that thunderbolt the sky The skyscrapers which defy the storms with muscles of steel and stone-glazed hide. But two weeks on the bare sidewalks of Manhattan At the end of the third week the fever seizes you with the pounce of a leopard...
Married. Claudia Martin, 19, starlet daughter of Singer Dean Martin; and Gavin Murrell, 23, would-be cinemactor; in a surprise elopement that, said Mrs. Martin, left Daddy Dino livid ("You couldn't print what he said when he heard the news"); in Las Vegas...
Color Them Livid or Laughing
year a goodly number of Undergraduates violate the stern of mighty Harvard. Whether their offense is prompted by the overindulgence of an adventurous or by rebellion against a conscience, most fledgling lawbreakers eventually run afoul Administration. Student offers provoke two types of reaction from University Hall: mild annoyance and livid rage. And the full wrath of University Hall can be called upon a student whose offense may seem to hardly worth even a rebuke...
...city of Pusan. Like thousands of other jobless refugees, Han opened a tiny store specializing in black-market supplies filched from U.S. military ware houses and PX stores, luxury goods smuggled from Japan. Soon Han muscled his way to the top of the pack, sported a smashed nose and livid knife scars as testimony to his ruthlessness. Not satisfied with being a middleman, he branched out into large-scale smuggling. Han's fleet of speedboats, powered by salvaged aircraft engines and diesel tank motors, easily outdistanced coast guard patrol boats on the short, 40-mile run between South Korean...