Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chamber War, a scene of furious activity, in which a billowing nurse is shown attacking three big-bellied doctors with a bedpan, while a skeleton embraces the terrified patient...
...Galluses snapped, furious fingers waved, but the Senate did finally agree to a truce. Labor legislation was shelved until April 20. First bill then: fire-breathing Texas Tom Connally's seize-freeze bill to freeze existing labor contracts, to provide for Government seizure of wartime plants if they had a labor ruckus...
...fire that brought into sharp relief the gaunt lines of her ancient U.S. hull. Around her, the motor gunboats and torpedo boats whined and sputtered. Above her. R.A.F. bombers roared and pounded. From the shore two powerful searchlights sought her out, and as the land batteries cut loose with furious cross-fire she belched angrily from her four thin stacks, stepped up her speed to 20 knots. Her 4-in. deck guns were quick to answer the shells that screamed at her from every side. Before her explosive-laden bow piled into the dock gates of St.-Nazaire...
...scene: the dance of the rolls. Unable to speak his happiness at having Georgia (Georgia Hale), the dance-hall girl he hopelessly adores, take dinner with him, the Little Fellow impales two rolls on forks and transforms them into the lyric legs of a ballet dancer, footing it with furious featness...
Last week he heard Donald Nelson on the radio mention a shameful corporation that had delayed a contract 26 days. The businessman was furious: Twenty-six days? A bagatelle! The Government had delayed his war project more than three months...