Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swiftness, and billowed silently across the whole top of the tent near the main entrance. The bleachers suddenly rumbled under thousands of feet; folding chairs clattered and banged. The crowd struggled to reach the ground, flowed wildly toward the exits, clotted into groups which pushed and elbowed with silent, furious concentration in the furnace-like heat. Men & women in the high bleacher seats began dropping children to the ground, then jumped themselves. Then great blazing patches of canvas fell. Women screamed as their hair and dresses caught fire. Then a tent pole toppled soundlessly, trailed by burning canvas. People were...
...after day on the New York Stock Exchange last week, stocks surged upward in a roaring, old-fashioned bull market. Brokers sweated ecstatically through two 2,000,000-share days and even one 2,517,340-share day, the busiest in over a year. Typical of the furious buying & selling: 1,111,570 shares changed hands in two hours, and twice during the week the tickers lagged. Up went the Dow-Jones industrial averages to 147.28, highest since May 10, 1940, when the Nazi strike into the Lowlands started the market on a long slide down. The rail average rose...
...Furious Being. At the rehearsal Stokowski discovered the orchestration was only for piano and string quintet, sent out a call for the composer, meanwhile attempted to proceed. When Ponce arrived, Stokowski erupted in French. He semaphored and windmilled. His elderly victim commented later: "What a surprise ... a furious being, wildly gesticulating at me . . . very rude. ..." Stokowski adjourned the rehearsal until 7:30 a.m. on the day of the broadcast...
...bouts follow intercollegiate rules and last for three 90-second rounds. The fighters use 16-oz. gloves, but make up for it with furious, all-out assaults. One night five knockouts were scored. The winner gets $5 in war stamps, the loser...
Duncan Norton-Taylor observed that the correspondents' technique was to pick their spot and hope that action would flow in their direction. But finally, to his surprise and consternation, he found too much action flowing his way in one of the Pacific war's most furious naval battles-the action of July 5-6 in Kula Gulf in which U.S. forces sank three Jap cruisers and five destroyers at the cost of one ship, the Helena. He describes the battle in words which give C. S. Forester a run for his nautical money...