Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the Funnel. From the Strait of Gibraltar "twenty steamers, escorted by three battleships (two of them of the Nelson class*), four aircraft carriers (the Eagle, Furious, one of the Illustrious class and one of the U.S. carrier York town class), numerous cruisers, several dozen destroyers and some smaller units" moved slowly into the Mediterranean Sea. This was the Italian report. If it was true, it was one of the greatest Allied naval concentrations in those waters since the war began. The destination: Malta...
...finest and most furious sets of murals ever painted in the Western Hemisphere was on view last week in the little city of Chilian (pop. 34,000) in Chile. An earthquake, an assassination, a jailbreak and a flight into exile had all conspired to produce them...
Britain was not brought to her knees by German bombers, but Germany can be brought down by Allied bombers. This is the belief of an airman with a gentle face and a furious tongue-Air Marshal Arthur Travers ("Ginger") Harris...
This was Britain's new hope. Air Marshal Harris, of the gentle face and furious tongue, put it more bluntly: "We will not cease our efforts until Hitler's Germany cries 'Enough...
...appearance of The Company She Keeps is a big event in the small world of Manhattan's gossipy literary lefts & liberaIs. Coruscating with private cracks and local allusions, it is arousing furious debate among the author's friends and victims. Despite its shortcomings, it also sets a standard of bilish sharpness in social, psychological and self-analysis with which few U.S. writers are equipped to compete. A friend of Miss McCarthy's wrote her rom childbed: "Before I read it I felt almost like the Virgin Mary. . . . Now . . . I salute you from the bottom of the kennel...