Word: fightingest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Superman is now in a really tough spot that even he can't get out of. His patriotism is above reproach. As the mightiest, fightingest American, he ought to join up. But he just can't. In the combat services he would lick the Japs and Nazis in a wink, and the war isn't going to end that soon. On the other hand, he can't afford to lose the respect of millions by failing to do his bit or by letting the war drag...
From another Navy man came the fightingest speech of all. Lieut. Commander Austin Hopkinson lit into Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook, said he would organize plane production as a newspaper stunt. ("Straight from the shoulder," commented Publisher Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express...
Died. General Paul Rollet, 72, "fightingest man in all France," president of the veterans' organization called the Smashed Faces, grand old man of the Foreign Legion and commandant of the famed First Regiment which fought on the Western Front in World War I; in Paris...
Taciturn son of humble parents in Italy's fightingest province, Piedmont, his greatest talents are for organizing and understanding Italian peasants. Boccia, their game of bowls, is his favorite and at it he, big-handed and muscular, is a champion. He also excels at bridge, is said never to overbid. Among military men he rates high as an able, likable professional. France's Gamelin was his good friend, though they differed on war of position v. war of motion...