Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after it was discovered, four years ago, Oklahoma's great West Edmond oilfield (TIME, Aug. 21, 1944) became the scene of a scramble. Many individual wildcatters and companies, using the greatest concentration of rotary drilling rigs in the world, began boring into its 30,000 acres in a furious race for oil. Last week West Edmond was the scene of an even more historic retreat. The companies who operate its 740 wells were getting ready to shut them down and pull out, with most of their equipment...
Shoeshine was intended as a furious and moving indictment of a postwar society, and of a world, in which such things could happen. It is all of that, and more. It makes the oversimplified diagnosis and prescription of most social tracts look like so much complacent blueprint. It is filled, in every scene, with an awareness of the pitiful complexity of the causes of even simple evil. The jailers, bureaucrats, magistrates, lawyers and priests who are cogs in the machinery of destruction are savagely caricatured, but each one of them is presented with compassion and understanding, as well as rage...
Last week, this whole painfully erected concept of fashion was tumbling down so fast that whole generations of window dummies were beginning to look selfconscious. The fashion world was engaged in a furious "circular advance-back to lines from which it had marched after World War I. It was a counterrevolution as drastic as a full-scale revival of the 1914 Pierce-Arrow, the buttonhook and the mustache cup. The summer's furore over longer hemlines was nothing but a skirmish. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, imperious oracles of the dressmakers, sounded the call. Unabashed, they now cried...
...barnlike Chicago Stadium felt and smelled like a crowded Turkish bath. A thermometer near the ringside, under the furious glow of the ring lights, read 88°. A crowd that paid $422,918 to get in (double the take of any previous indoor fight) was packed shoulder to shoulder. The organ pumped out the National Anthem, Zale stood at attention like everybody else, but Rocky Graziano, the reform-school graduate from Manhattan's Lower East Side, went right on dancing and sparring in his corner...
From the Louis XV wing of the great palace at Fontainebleau came sounds of furious piano cadenzas, the scraping of violins, and of someone trying to conquer a flute. The Americans were back...