Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Academy until the Nazis, kicked him out. In 1938, the Carnegie International jury gave its $1.000 first prize to Hofer's The Wind, which pictured two defenseless figures huddling against a swirl ; it might well have been the ill wind faced by non-Nazi Germans. Herr Goebbels, the furious Fährer of Nazi art, who had previously let Hofer paint but not exhibit in Germany, thereupon forbade him to paint at all. But Hofer managed to keep at it- although he was twice bombed out of his Berlin home, and lost all his work. Last week...
...himself a "Wilkite," not a republican -though he grew, with time, into a true champion of liberty and progress. But the case transcended the man.* It became one of those symbolic agitations that arouse a whole people who have been brooding over their wrongs to a furious defense of their rights...
...reporters crowded in for his press conference last week, President Truman looked somewhat tired. But he was not too tired to live up to a promise made shortly after he took office: that he would hold a news conference only when he had news to impart. In 14 fast & furious minutes, the President...
...ordered Roget to "cease fire." The Frenchman said that he would not take orders from a Britisher. Paget suggested that Roget call his French superior, General Humbolt, at Beirut. Roget pointed out that the British had cut his telephone line. Paget offered him the use of the British line. Furious, Roget declined...
...cost of that furious two-hour battle to the Laffey was 31 men killed or missing, 60 wounded. The Japs lost their six suicide planes and eight more shot down. In brisk, factual fashion, Lieut. Frank Manson, communications officer, told how it went, that morning of April...