Word: livid
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When O'Connor learned about that backstage Washington dickering, he was livid. He felt that NBC, by seeking to avoid a fight before the commission, had created the impression that his case was weak. Counters WMAQ General Manager Len Schulman: "We're not going to defend every case in every court to protect Len's reputation...
...activates the system, he, she or it must be buckled in before the car will start. Newspaper Columnist George Will recently bought a 22-lb. Beltsville turkey, plopped it in the front seat and found that to get his car moving, he had to belt the Beltsville. Drivers become livid when they get out of then-cars to open the garage doors and then have to buckle up again to avoid being assailed by the buzzer while they park...
...course, and quickly stifled. Someone coming on him suddenly couldn't help it, I suppose. Francois was furious. He waddled down the beach faster almost than I could run to catch him. When I got to him, we trotted side by side for a while. His face was livid and he was muttering obscenities...
When Frank Sinatra publicly insulted Washington Post Columnist Maxine Cheshire with a mouthful of four-letter words and two dollar bills on the eve of President Nixon's Inauguration (TIME, Feb. 5), many proper people in the capital were appalled. Nixon himself, according to one source, was livid, feeling that the incident had "besmirched his Inauguration...
...characters and situations which he made his own from the start. His people have missed the boat in life, have gotten by without adjusting to the "normal world"; they always find too late that their personalities have hardened like plaster in the wrong mold. Williams lets their fevers go livid in phantasmagoric night worlds where they soliloquize on private terrors, and create minor crises for each other, knowing what they do there will reverberate no further. His plays deal with nostalgia and hope, they have the static quality of a dream rather than the dynamic quality of fact. Williams' drama...