Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter of 1812 Napoleon retreated from Moscow, but in the winter of 1941 Fedor von Bock expects to take the city. This is partly because Fedor von Bock is driven by a furious determination shared by every German officer all the way up to Adolf Hitler; it is partly because der Sterber is disdainful of hard ships...
...struggled on," said McCullough afterward, "in a series of furious silences. ..." But Any Questions? soon began to zoom into popularity. People liked salty Commander Campbell (" 'e's not so dumb, 'e's just got common sense instead of heducation."). They liked goat-bearded Cyril Joad because he could and would talk beautifully about anything. They liked Huxley for his precise knowledge (after a brilliant disquisition by Joad on "What is Love?" Scientist Huxley gave a direct biological answer...
Ronald Glenn Callvert, 68, oldest of the three, has been on the Oregonian since 1909, was assistant and managing editor until he became editorial writer in 1931. Bushy-browed, kindly, he hunts & pecks his tax and fiscal editorials at furious speed on a portable typewriter while chewing an unlit cigar. (All editorialists, like Oregonian reporters, buy their own typewriters.) The story is that Editor Callvert in 1938 was about to be fired because he was too expensive. The idea was dropped when he won the Pulitzer Prize for best editorial of the year...
...strictly confidential, Captain Bob Houghton and Fred Phinney looked particularly impressive in leading their respective heats in the three-quarter mile trails, while Bill Palson loped his eight laps in effortless style to finish with a less impressive time. To redeem himself, the smooth-striding star tore through a furious quarter-mile a few minutes later...
...Rosten's poll of Washington correspondents ranked the Tribune next to the Hearst press as "least fair and reliable" of all U.S. newspapers. That poll reflected the Tribune's savage anti-Roosevelt angling of news. Meantime its isolationist -propaganda -as-news-unsurpassed for furious bias since frontier journalism -has probably qualified the Tribune for first rank in any like poll in 1941. Alone among U.S. newspapers since 1933, the Tribune has got its papers burned in public bonfires, its offices rotten-egged. Also unique is the range of hatred for the Tribune: it cuts across all class lines...