Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Campaign by Headline. With no major speech in ten days, and in the face of the furious blaze of war news, Tom Dewey kept in the headlines by skillful use of his press conferences...
...Reed went on fighting. From Kansas City came furious tirades against the Supreme Court packing plan, child labor laws, the Montgomery-Ward seizure, the Second Term, the Third Term, the Fourth Term...
...Ward-heelers who stooge for Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly. Placards which they had been holding face down as they sat were now waved high: "Roosevelt and Victory"; "Roosevelt and Lasting Peace." The organ, and a brassy band above it in the gallery, blanketed the loud speakers with furious music. Timed, the actual cheering for the President lasted only 14 seconds; after that the organ and the band alternated, with occasional perfunctory whoops from the galleries...
...Joan. The Maid, Simone noted, had not been put to death by the English invaders, but by 15th-Century French quislings. Soon Si mone found herself in the same fix. A haughty Marquis, the town's political boss, kept a collaborationist eye on her. Her Uncle Planchard was furious with her too, because of the gasoline tanks. Simone was arrested and, like Joan, lost her nerve, signed a confession. But when courage returned, Simone repudiated her confession, gallantly went off to Burgundy's most ruthless reformatory for the duration...
...29th Democratic National Convention got under way in Chicago this week after one of the most furious weeks of politicking Washington had ever seen...