Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catholic religious teaching has been made compulsory in all primary and secondary schools (Argentine Fascism may well acquire a Franco-like clerical front). The campaign against "Communism" is more furious and inclusive than ever. Only one essential is still lacking-an official party to monopolize all politics. Apparently the Argentine nationalist movement (technically not a party and hence not dissolved) is being groomed...
...danger was still greater in the south. There Nikolai Vatutin's army of half a million men had torn a 200-mile gap in the lines of Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, and was now racing into the pages of history with furious momentum...
...along the aesthetic line to the kind that satisfy the beast in us. The cause of the transition is a brawny sand-hog (Mac-Murray--and the muscles are real) whom Miss Colbert stumbles into underneath a river so help me. From there on things happen in a fast, furious, and funny...
...That afternoon she made her strike and closed, somewhere above the Nordkapp (North Cape), on the uppermost tip of Norway. But she found a battle, not a slaughter. The convoy she fell in with was under escort of strong forces of the British Home Fleet. Then began a long, furious, desperate running fight, as the hostile ships turned and maneuvered, while big guns thundered and baleful orange flashes cut through the grey atmosphere. Darkness brought no respite; the killers closed in; some hours later the proud Scharnhorst took her death blow and went down...
...their original size, the 268 brutal, sometimes nether-worldly scenes which Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) etched in the latter years of his life when deafness and ill health had embittered him and he was capping his prodigious career as court painter with a furious moral summation of all he had seen. Samples: a mule, Goya's symbol of pride of lineage, fondling the genealogy of his mulish ancestors; a rapist soldier dragging a young woman over the contorted body of a baby; a man vomiting on a tangled mass of war corpses ("Is this...