Word: fiercest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fiercest were the five days around Troina, a craggy road junction shielding the German position on Mt. Etna's northwest shoulder. The first combat team thrown against Troina by Major General Terry Allen's ist Infantry Division bounced back hard. German howitzers and mor tars skillfully held the hilltops. The ist Division massed its artillery, called in dive-bombers of the Tactical Air Force. For 72 hours the dust of an Allied barrage hung over the German emplacements. Then the ist Division smashed forward and through Troina...
...People. From Milan, Italy's second city, Benito Mussolini had plotted the March on Rome. From Milan now came the fiercest revolutionary impulses...
...said the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. last week to a group of scientists and industrialists gathered for the dedication of the new $1,325,000 Goodyear Research Laboratory in Akron. To prove it, Goodyear displayed a small box which, hooked up to an ordinary receiving set, chokes the fiercest static to a mere whisper...
...Horii, conqueror of Rabaul, who was desperate (he was almost captured fortnight ago in the New Guinea jungle). Now General Horii knew what it was like to strive mightily to reinforce battered troops when they were hemmed in on three sides (last week the fresh Americans took over the fiercest fighting assignments from the jungle-weary Australians). For his striving the Emperor's General lost a cruiser and two destroyers, blown to pieces by U.S. and Australian pilots...
...hero of Fort Sumter, whom President Jefferson Davis first entrusted with the defense of Richmond. "Old Bory" had a bloodhound's eye and a theatrical, martial look. Taking command at Manassas Junction, he showed a pardonable confidence in the fighting spirit of his troops, the first and fiercest volunteers. His notions of their tactical capacity-communicated in eloquent notes to Richmond-were purely visionary...