Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Murder on the way-He had a mask like Castlereagh.) Contemptuous of parliamentary and public opinion, antiliberal, cold-blooded Castlereagh desired the independence of Poland, Saxony, Genoa, but when he found these aims were unattainable he set them aside. "The Congress of Vienna," he said bluntly to his furious critics in Parliament, "was not assembled for the discussion of moral principles, but for great practical purposes, to establish effectual provisions for the general security...
...which bubbled to the surface early Sunday morning and kept late sabbath sleepers from their afternoon baths is still going strong, the water works reported last night. Crews have been working on the break since its discovery but are having a hard time plugging it up. Flooded cellars and furious pumping operations have given that section of Cambridge a bit of Mississippi River charm...
After four months of furious effort, the fast-moving real-estate firm of Webb & Knapp Inc. had control of a rundown, 30-acre, eight-block area on the East Side (41st to 49th Streets, First Avenue to the East River). Webb & Knapp promptly announced plans to replace the run-down stables, warehouses, slaughterhouses and tenements with the biggest, costliest city-within-a-city ever built. Cost: $150,000,000. Features: a 57-story office building, three 30-story apartments, a 6,000-capacity convention hall, a yacht landing, a helicopter field, a 5,000,000,000-sq.-ft. parking platform...
Participants in a furious jungle war were finding peace a reluctant prize. Last year the "Republic" of Viet Nam (almost half the size of France), formerly part of French Indo-China, waged a fierce minor struggle for independence from France. At Fontainebleau last week, the French-Viet Nam peace conference broke wide open, seriously endangering France's already tottering colonial policy. Chiefly responsible was Viet Nam's self-styled "President" Ho Chin Minh...
...that Curran & Co. could make a damaging cut in the vital flow of iron ore, coal and limestone to U.S. producers who must overstock before the Lakes freeze. The 70 ships manned by members of the A.F.L.'s Seafarer's International Union sailed as usual-despite one furious fist fight with N.M.U. picketers. But more & more freighters owned by the 24 operators with whom neither the N.M.U. nor the S.I.U. have contracts were tied up in sympathy strikes by their crews as they came to port. This was precisely what Joe Curran hoped...