Word: ragingly
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...Rome discussion produced no decisive response to the crisis, and the battle in Lebanon will continue to rage for some time yet. But it is becoming clear both on the battlefield and in the diplomatic arena that the U.S. and Israel are unlikely to achieve the knockout blow they'd hoped to deliver against Hizballah. The question that will be settled, both on the battlefield and in the chambers of diplomacy in the coming days, is which side will have to concede more in the cease-fire that will ultimately take shape...
...carried on an affair with a teenager he met in a toy store B) He refused to stop singing Uptown Girl at karaoke night C) He flies into a jealous rage when her Total Gym infomercial with Chuck Norris comes on TV D) If 50 is the new 40, then Cook is more interested...
...mean streets of Le Castellane, the immigrant ghetto in northern Marseilles where he grew up. Zidane learned to fight on the streets of Le Castellane, where respect was earned by not walking away from a challenge. And his early soccer coaches were quickly alerted to the violent rage that could be provoked by taunts from players and fans about his origins and family. They taught him to channel that rage into superlative soccer skills, but it periodically erupted in violent outbursts...
...Whatever the words that provoked Zidane's last on-field head-butt, the rage it revealed may derive in no small part from the strain of being Zizou. He told an interviewer two years ago, "It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up. And, for me, the most important thing is that I still know who I am. Every day I think about where I come from...
Just as the arrival of automobiles ultimately brought us words like rubbernecking, gridlock and road rage, the information age demands new terms for the behavior it induces. So says psychiatrist Edward Hallowell in a forthcoming book, CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap--Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD (Ballantine Books; 246 pages). Here's a sampler of Hallowell's new words for new times...