Word: fiercest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unknown to the U.S. at large, one of the fiercest and most important struggles for power in the history of the New Deal went silently on last week. It was like a fight between monsters of the sea: only an occasional bubble of blood marked the threshing progress of the struggle...
...official weather reporter for Pierre and vicinity, Mrs. McNeil in her little white cottage (KGFX is just off the living room) gives out some of the fiercest temperature figures recorded in the U.S. From the Badlands to the eastern lakes a winter cold spell may mean 46° below, an August afternoon 115° above. Even on days like that, when a lot of people in South Dakota are feeling poorly, brisk Mrs. McNeil puts in her eight 'hours at the microphone...
...London's Big Ben boomed midnight on September's last day, marking the city's two-month holiday from raid warnings, German planes made their fiercest onslaught of many weeks on other British cities...
They discuss aid to Russia. Because Russia is now fighting the fiercest fight against Hitler, the President has determined that the U.S. should give Russia real and effective aid, even at the cost of diverting some supplies from Britain (see p. 20). With some reluctance the Prime Minister agrees...
...After twelve days of what has undoubtedly been the fiercest fighting in this war, it was decided to withdraw our forces from Crete. . . . Some 15,000 [of our] troops have been withdrawn to Egypt but it must be admitted that our losses have been severe." With this bleak announcement the British War Office signalized the end of not only the fiercest but also some of the most crucial fighting in World War II-the airborne invasion of Crete. After the fall of this British outpost, the Mediterranean no longer was a British lake. The concept of the Mediterranean...