Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Venezuela's Foreign Minister Caracciolo Parra-Pérez used only one gesture as he rose to speak. He shook a furious finger under the pained nose of Ruiz...
Blood on the Islands. The Jap's furious assault on the Philippines and Malaya has worked better than anybody but the Jap (and perhaps the Dutch) had expected. The Jap has knocked out Hong Kong and Manila, immobilized the great base at Singapore and grievously threatened its possession. Already his pathway to the Indies has been opened...
...whirled in from the Northwest, gathering strength as it ran. It powdered San Francisco and Los Angeles with their first snow in ten years, trailed a white swath across the Rockies, roared down upon the Middle West in a furious gale. It blotted out roads, stalled trains, buried cars. It was too big, too dangerous for even wartime censors to keep under their hats. U.S. weather bureaus dropped their gags and signaled warnings of the winter's first big storm to farmers, truckers, pilots, linesmen...
...inclined to expect from Hitler desperate, nervous, furious and fanatical, and thus ill-advised military and political actions, and therefore it is necessary to be on our guard in every way, in both the political and military spheres...
...networks were in action-and in a turmoil. The news was beyond the grasp of some listeners. WOR, cutting into its football broadcast for a half minute, a minute at a time, got furious telephone calls from people too excited about the game to become excited about anything else. In Denver, when a religious hour was canceled, one man called station KFEL to ask if it considered the war news more important than the gospel. Nowhere did the straight radio reports of terrific bombing at Honolulu-of Jap pilots diving over the beautiful mountains to fire U.S. ships and kill...