Word: fiercer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cissie Patterson's feud with Pearson & Allen was more complex and fiercer than the others in which she often engages. She has close family and professional ties with Columnist Drew Pearson. He is her ex-son-in-law and father of her only granddaughter Ellen, now 15, in whose favor Cissie was said to have drawn a will leaving her fortune (about $40,000,000) and the Times-Herald...
...London Daily Mirror's caustic criticism of the Government (TIME, March 30), instead of backing down under the fierce drubbing which was administered to him by virtually the entire British press and a good part of the House of Commons, returned to the attack, under an even fiercer drubbing...
...American textbooks from the school. Husband Canby was discovering, or being joyously discovered by, local Communists and fellow travelers. He was also helping a C.I.O. strike by printing strikers' handbills free, speaking at their meetings. To such acts of God as hurricane and blizzard, the Kittredges added the fiercer excitements of campaigning to elect a lady liberal to the school board and a somewhat befuddled farmer as moderator of the town meeting...
Last week initiative in Albania passed to the Axis. Each day Greek communiques spoke of Italian counterattacks, fiercer and better planned than any that had gone before. The biggest Italian effort seemed to be aimed at Corizza, on the northern sector of the front, which the Greeks occupied when the war was a month...
Poet T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot attacked the Church in wasteland accents for letting Christian principle vanish from education. Sir Richard Acland was fiercer: "For over 150 years you have neglected your duty . . . because of sheer funk. . The whole structure of society ... is, from the Christian point of view, rotten and must permanently frustrate your efforts to create for the individual the possibility of a Christian life. . . . This has given Hitler the opportunity for saying 'To hell with the whole order.' He said this, and from despairing humanity he wrung forth a tremendous and dynamic response. ... In order...