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Word: furiously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among churchmen for his neo-orthodox theology, he is almost as well known among intellectual liberals for his unorthodox politics. His writing is knotty, intellectual and forbidding; in speaking he has such a hard time keeping up with his racing mind that his words are accompanied by furious arm-flailings and face-twistings that sometimes make him look-though never sound -like an oldtime, fire-and-brimstone revivalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Niebuhr v. Sin | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...midst of prayers and pressures the furious tinkering went on. U.S. citizens had no idea where they were headed-for a safe landing or a bust. All they knew was that it was almost impossible to buy a shirt. or a steak at ceiling prices, or rent a house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shakedown II | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...action on the Iran case sent all the big powers scurrying about in a furious burst of housecleaning, to redd up their records before U.N. got around to them. Since it was apparent that the main issue would involve the world's power vacuums, the areas where the dependent peoples live, most of the housecleaning activity turned around colonial questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.N.: Limited Victory | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...This Great Big Guy." Four furious days & nights of campaigning had gone before. Reuther had arrived in Atlantic City ready to pry fat-bottomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Little Redhead | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...Phil Murray, sensing a challenge to his control of C.I.O., made a speech to his loyal auto workers, deliberately brushed off the shocked and furious Reuther while he saluted the beaming Thomas as "this great big guy for whom I have a distinct fondness." Then Murray got out of town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Little Redhead | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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