Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boasts of their effectiveness-there was wild confusion when U.S. troops landed. To the surprise of Murphy and Eisenhower, Vichy and Pétain were firmly entrenched in high places. And Darlan was in Algiers, visiting a sick son. Eisenhower then made his famed deal with Darlan, persuaded a furious Giraud to serve under the Admiral, and calmly dismissed the "small differences of ideas" among Frenchmen which these arrangements aggravated...
...second stanza, Collinson again sent the disk home to sow up the game. The play was fast and furious throughout, and the tilt turned out to be one of the most thrilling of the current season...
...Dartmouth fracas, much publicized in the local journals, was a little sloppier than its two furious predecessors, but made up in excitement what it lacked slightly in performance. Harvard fought back from behind on three occassions, and outplayed the visitors noticeably in the third period and during the overtime session...
...Senate's patient, plodding majority leader, Alben Barkley, stepped out of character as a loyal New Dealer, joined Missouri's Harry Truman in a furious attack on the Government's record in helping small business get war contracts. Said Alben Barkley: "I have held my tongue in my cheek as long as I am going to hold it there about this situation...
...story reaches a furious climax in paragraph two, when young Miss Anderson's father arrives "at just the moment that I paid the inevitable penalty of nervous haste by spilling the salmon and peas all over the kitchen floor. I was on the verge of a tearful collapse (it says here)--my pride completely crushed." (Now here was such pathos, such tragedy, such stark realism, that I just had to go on to the next paragraph, without even stopping to order my customary scotch and water...