Word: vehement
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...sportswriters know that in 1912 Ty Cobb was fined only $50 for running into the grandstand and punching a spectator? Why, at this price Ted could demand his money's worth and maim 100 vehement fans...
This latest crackdown has been attributed to the Cambridge City Council's vehement attack on the College for its failure to provide adequate parking facilities. Toohy, however, explained that this was a "normal thing for this time of the year. The streets have to be clean for Commencement and we have to get some of the cars off the street...
...Time Is Now." Quickly, it became evident that most of the delegates were in a mood for vehement talk. "We seek action now," cried N.A.A.C.P.'s Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins. "We are here to condemn murderers. We are here to demand redress for victims of cruel dictatorship." N.A.A.C.P.'s Washington director, Clarence Mitchell, added: "Tell those Democrats that if they keep a stinking albatross like Senator Eastland around their necks they can kiss our votes goodbye." Some N.A.A.C.P. delegates felt, however, that such talk did the organization more harm than good in the high-tension atmosphere of today...
When Eden rose to reply after dinner, the Tories boosted him on his way with a sustained, vehement "Hear, hear." But the Prime Minister began badly. Discomfited by Labor heckling from the front bench opposite, Eden lost his usual urbanity. His voice was almost shrill as he complained that Labor was not giving him time to speak. Shouting that he had spoken "for 30 years in this House." Eden had to appeal to the Speaker to quiet the ridicule. A Churchill would have met the hecklers with confident abuse...
Curtice is equally vehement in his belief that spinning off two divisions would benefit neither the consumer nor the competition. If Oldsmobile, for example, were separated from G.M., it would automatically be shut off from the vast pool of centralized engineers, research, styling and production-line know-how that have pushed G.M. ahead. Its cars would soon be out of date and would cost more. Spun off from G.M., Olds would have little hope of competing with the rest of the industry...