Word: fiercest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shores of Iwo Jima (Paramount), a nine-minute newsreel taken by Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps cameramen of the fiercest fight in Marine Corps history, is worthy, or almost worthy, to rank with such great war records as With the Marines at Tarawa (TIME, March 20, 1944). Shot chiefly on a terrain as shapeless as an ash-heap, as mortally featureless and cryptic as the flank of Captain Ahab's White Whale in their ultimate engagement, it lacks the relative coherence and clarity of most of its predecessors. It demonstrates, in fact, more clearly than any previous film...
...shrew-the animal namesake of bad-tempered women-is the smallest but fiercest and most voraciously carnivorous of all mammals. The brown, beady-eyed, two-to four-inch creature looks like a tiny, sharp-nosed field mouse, and lives under logs, leaves, roots and grasses in the woodlands of America, Asia and Europe. Last week Cornell's Zoology Professor William Robert Eadie (now a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy) made known some new facts about this diminutive killer...
...penetrated into Lingayen Gulf, were laying their guns on coast defenses as far south as San Fabian (see map). Third Fleet carrier planes supplied close air support. The Japanese description of the scene was nothing if not vivid: "The whole area of Lingayen Gulf is detonating with the fiercest bombardment ... by the enemy surface units as well as the large carrier-borne plane bombings. . . . Superheavy guns mounted in the fortresses of San Fernando, Bauang, Damortis and other places on the coast of Lingayen Gulf are sending up a terrible barrage and are giving the hottest reception ever recorded...
...north German plain-the enemy pulled out more tanks and men, hurled them against Hodges' lines in a new assault. The Americans had seen the reserves and the armor piling up, were braced for the onslaught. When it came this week, the battle became one of the fiercest yet fought in the west...
...after traveling northwest toward Florida, hurricanes hit a high-pressure coastal front and veer seaward toward a low-pressure area south of Greenland. But last week's storm, like that in 1938, was funneled inland by the coincidence of a low-pressure front near the Great Lakes. The fiercest hurricane in U.S. history was the 1900 Galveston (Tex.) storm, which killed 6,000. The 1938 storm, still considered the most destructive on record, caused damage estimated...