Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lieut. Matsumai came to our dugout saying, "As long as I'm going to die, I want to die with the pharmacist's section." Also: "If this is going to be our grave let us make it clean." We attended to cleaning up the area. The furious assault of the enemy commenced. . . . Two men pathetically committed suicide due to severe wounds. The lieutenant and the pharmacist section bade farewell and promised to meet at the Yasukumi Shrine after death. I, with Lieut. Yamaguchi, was absorbed into the command section and was very happy...
...west there was no longer a major defense line. In the east two Russian armies were advancing into Austria; two more were poised along the Oder. Somewhere soon the fronts of the east and west would merge. After that might come a furious, chaotic period of cleanup-in Norway, along the Baltic, amid the mountains of southern Germany and northern Italy. But the obscene grandeur that had been Nazi Germany would be dead and finished...
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, New York City's furious duck of a mayor, did an unwitting disservice to Hugo LaGuardia, 17 (no kin), when Hugo was arrested for playing catch with a glass plate at Coney Island. Hugo paid a fine of $3 ($2 more than his pitching partner) because, as the judge put it: "Any man who has the family name of LaGuardia must be particularly careful of what he does...
...once a barrage of furious criticism opened up against Moss. The man who had called Trio "lewd, lascivious and immoral" was himself called "dictatorial," "bigoted," "one-man censor."* In the growing uproar, 19 organizations denounced Moss. Some demanded that Mayor LaGuardia fire...
...Germans fought on, tried to break out in furious counterattacks. There was little future for them if they succeeded. The arm that enclosed them was an inner envelopment by this week. Rokossovsky had developed a similar encircling sweep, aimed at Danzig and the German Baltic coast...