Word: fiercer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pygmies live on high, steep slopes, where they were driven by the bigger, fiercer people of the Ramu valley, and Father Gusinde found them the poorest of the poor. Their rudimentary culture is preStone Age; their few stone weapons and tools they did not make for themselves but got from Stone Age neighbors. In spite of the mountain cold, they wear only G-strings and their little grass huts contain nothing but ashes from their fires. Food is usually scarce, and women are scarcer. Male births among the Pygmies, says Father Gusinde, outnumber female births four to one, and young...
Dighenis the Leader had concluded his offer with a threat to meet any British violation of the truce with renewed violence "on a fiercer and more intensive scale." But the British, too, were in a mood to test good intentions and to prove their own. Day after the truce leaflets appeared, the Cyprus supreme court commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence that had been passed on 18-year-old Chrysostomos Panayi for participating in the bombing of a military police barracks. The following day the District Commissioner of Nicosia lifted a four-month-old ban on nighttime...
...days, not so long ago, when the bloodthirsty Mau Mau were terrorizing all of Kenya, there was no fiercer character in all the jungle than Dedan Kimathi, a scarred, stocky ex-clerk who had fought and jockeyed his way to the leadership of all the guerrillas. Not content with his popular title, "General Russia," Dedan capped his arrogance by calling himself Field Marshal Sir Dedan Kimathi and appointing a parliament of his own to preside over. The Nairobi government put a price of ?500 on his head...
...fighter planes. Stapp rode them all. He suffered the acceleration forces as they speeded up and the even greater forces of deceleration as the water brake (long trough of water engaging a scoop on the sled) brought them to a wrenching stop. Faster and faster speeded the sleds; fiercer and fiercer grew the wind buffeting against him. Once his wrist pulled loose and fractured against a railing. He set it himself and that night had oysters for dinner because he could not cut any meat. The same wrist got smashed again later. "It is a little out of line...
...rest of the world many million years ago, its only mammals were marsupials, whose young are born tiny and undeveloped and must be nursed along in a pouch. The primitive marsupials were probably like modern opossums. But they had Australia to themselves, and, protected from the competition of the fiercer placental mammals, they evolved in many directions and duplicated almost every type that the placentals produced in other parts of the world. Besides the familiar kangaroos (equivalent in habits to deer or antelopes), there are still pouched carnivora and pouched marsupial moles...