Word: fightingest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to see the fightingest team you ever saw out there tomorrow afternoon," O'Donnell told the rally...
Then the conference proceeded to elect to the Party's powerful executive committee: Dr. Edith Summerskill, Labor's ablest, fightingest woman M.P.; leftish M.P. Aneurin Bevan, Churchill's bitterest Labor critic in Parliament...
...devotion to flying and fighting, modest, easygoing Colonel Hubert Zemke, of Missoula, Mont., finally decided that this would be his last combat mission before going on noncombat duty. Leading his fighter group in an attack on Hamburg, he ran into weather trouble, disappeared into a cloud. Last week the "fightingest" U.S. pilot commander in Europe was reported to be a prisoner in Germany...
...press conference in San Francisco's ancient St. Francis Hotel, he surprised newsmen with his growing sureness as a campaigner, pleased photographers by turning his handsome profile. Then, before the heavily Republican Commonwealth Club, which had heard from Harold Ickes on the day before, John Bricker made his fightingest speech...
Fierce-browed Admiral William Frederick Halsey, one of the U.S. Navy's fightingest admirals was just about out of a job. At his advance headquarters in a Solomons jungle last week, correspondents were called in, given the tip-off that his work in the South Pacific was about over. When "Bull" Halsey, once famed Annapolis fullback (1902-3), took over the South Pacific command in October 1942, the Marines on Guadalcanal were in trouble. Halsey waded right...