By last summer, though, public meetings on health care were erupting in fury and the phrase "Tea Party" was entering the political lexicon.
And yet, Mr. Blagojevich, 52, rarely turns up for work at his official state office in Chicago, former employees say, is unapologetically late to almost everything, and can treat employees with disdain, cursing and erupting in fury for failings as mundane as neglecting to have at hand at all times his preferred black Paul Mitchell hairbrush.
The Canadian was right of course, and Brown remembered erupting in fury when Osborne had fetched up in Edinburgh to tell the Scots the pound was English and let that be an end to it, like a medieval Saxon baron telling his tenants he had first call on their brides.
One day, when the wall is being banged on, Fatima erupts in fury.
The transgender community erupted in fury, and McEwan had to issue a public apology.
Asked to justify his stance on Radio 1, Broomfield erupted in fury and stormed out, refusing to comment.
The judge erupted in fury several times, accusing some of the defense lawyers of attacking her integrity and telling them to "shut up".
The son erupts in fury at his mother for being sick; one player curses the crowd for always "shooting bullets of talk" at him.
The speed cameras were a top priority of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who erupted in fury in March when the issue appeared to have reached an impasse in the Senate, and who has made traffic safety a goal of his philanthropic efforts.
The week Apple filed the suit against HTC, Steven P. Jobs — then Apple's chief executive, who died late last year — erupted in fury over Android, in a scene depicted in Walter Isaacson's biography of him.
