LONDON – Nathan Adrian of the United States won the gold medal in the Olympic 100-meter freestyle on Wednesday night, completing the furious, water-thrashing, lung-busting test one-hundredth of a second faster than James Magnussen of Australia.
As we descended, I craned my neck for a glimpse of the ground and saw a stream swollen with furious brown water.
Getting out looked impossible, and the waves looked not worth the effort anyway, but Mark was out there, a small black-wetsuited figure in a world of furious white water, throwing himself into the stacked walls of onrushing foam.
A resident with a home video camera captured a mudslide that pushed down Mount Wumyeon, which is popular among hikers, engulfing a road and tossing cars like toys in a furious wave of mud, water and gravel.
Furious torrents of water pushing enormous boulders charged toward the Kedarnath shrine and town.
Weymouth had described an inlet (now Hudson Strait) where a "furious overfall" of water rushed out with every ebb tide.
The sheep owner was furious that the water would be fouled, and one time he was so fed up he threatened to shoot the goose.
The furious onrush of water left sediment a foot and a half deep on the Jersey Shore, and debris cascaded far up the Hudson River.
Wind is what is driving the current pattern, but furious, invasive, unwelcome water is how this is embodying itself most discomfitingly in people's lives.
Paul Goodison, the reigning Olympic champion in the Laser, just missed out on a medal and came off the water furious, believing the Australians had worked as a team to edge him out.
