Word: ragingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years the wool growers have been sheltered by a cartel-like mechanism that only helped skew the market. The Australian Wool Corporation, a quasi- official body, bought all unsold stocks at a guaranteed price. When natural fibers became the fashion rage of the late 1980s, the AWC lifted the price by 71%, to $3.35 per lb., which encouraged farmers to swell their flocks. So dominant was Australia in the fine-wool market that its minimum price kept the stuff expensive amid overproduction and shrinking demand. One result has been a turn by Japan to improved synthetic fibers, which are smoother...
Hamlet In the year's finest U.S. classical revival, at San Diego's Old Globe, Campbell Scott was a revelation -- most memorably when he pounded in rage at being murdered just when he had proved, above all to himself, his worthiness to rule...
...warmed to his theme, his voice grew louder and shook with indignation; he waved his finger and brandished a fist over the lectern. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, known the world over for his all-weather, ear- to-ear grin, for once was in a boiling, very public rage...
...aaaaahhhhhhhh. These are the onomatopoetics of anguish (and perverse exhilaration) as rendered by Tom Wolfe toward the end of The Bonfire of the Vanities. They are the sounds made by his protagonist, Sherman McCoy, as he at last acknowledges that he is an all too human animal: capable of rage and deceit and all the other low emotions that people educated at Yale, working on Wall Street and living on Park Avenue usually never discover within themselves, let alone admit in public. They are also the sounds of a man abandoning the last defense of privilege: clever, distancing and self...
...view that victory is in sight is shared by the President and his outgoing drug czar. While drug use has plunged in the middle class, cocaine and crime still rage in poor neighborhoods. Bush shares Thanksgiving with the G.I.s...