Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jackson's gentle domestic manners, his low voice, soft blue eyes and intellectual forehead, his delight in theological discussion, all masked the most furious fighter of the Confederacy. If retreat was necessary, he prayed that "a kind Providence may enable us to inflict a terrible wound." An officer who rode with him noted: "In advance, his trains were left far behind. In retreat, he would fight for a wheelbarrow." He marched and starved his men, if necessary, without mercy...
...four furious days the Chinese Government poured a mass of statistics in the ears of Willkie and his party. The Chinese case, however, was best presented, not by statistics, banquets and banners in the streets, but by 4,000,000 troops fanned out in a 2,000-and-more-mile protective arc against 500,000 well-equipped Japanese. Therefore Willkie was taken to the front...
...battle for Stalingrad blazed into full fury again after a protracted lull, the High Command reported. Implying that the struggle was raging unabated, it said "our men are selflessly repelling furious enemy attacks...
...Orissa Province furious mobs stormed police stations. At Eram 25 were killed. In Old Delhi gunfire dispersed 2,000 demonstrators. In Bombay, scene of earlier gas attacks (see cut), lathee charges left blood-covered cobblestones in front of a statue of Queen Victoria. Some Indians in the hinterlands used bows and arrows. Guerrilla gangs attacked railways...
...satisfy India's Moslems. In 1939 the Marquess of Linlithgow, India's Viceroy, announced that because every ship was needed for World War II, hajis would have to wait for peace to make their pilgrimage (usual season: November through January). Moslems were indignant. Berlin made fast & furious propaganda throughout the East, and the Viceroy had to yield. Though the war has kited shipping costs, India subsidized shipowners to continue the pilgrimage at prewar fares through last season. This time, the Viceroy is already coping with so much Indian unrest that whatever decision he makes is almost certain...