Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accomplished a small breakthrough. To the desert's awful heat German shock troops added that of flamethrowers, but the answering heat of British artillery exploded the flame-throwing apparatus, stopped the tanks, and squeezed the breakthrough into a small sac. The difference between the futile Italian and the furious British defense of Tobruch was not just a matter of command of the sea. The Italians used fixed artillery, which could fire outwards only, so that after a breakthrough the whole ring of emplacements was useless; the British, with movable guns, stayed at their posts after the breakthrough and trained...
...Nazi diplomatic protests were made to the Argentine Foreign Office last week. The first, coldly furious, objected to an expose of Nazi fifth columners in Argentina, published in the well-edited, pro-British picture magazine Desfile. The second objected to the same magazine's reprinting from LIFE (Dec. 9) the speech allegedly made to a secret Nazi council by Nazi Minister of Agriculture Richard-Walther Darre ("We will introduce . . . a new aristocracy of German masters. . . . We actually have in mind a modern form of medieval slavery which we must and will introduce because we urgently need it in order...
Senatorial cynics dryly agreed last week that the world was safe, because New Hampshire's Charles William Tobey had it on his shoulders again. Senator Tobey, a somewhat skinny Atlas, is a rumpled, furious man with a vivid imagination and a hound-keen nose for trouble-a word indissolubly connected in Mr. Tobey's mind with Franklin Roosevelt...
...orders and talked about this chance to crack the Jerries. The fleet was massed in west harbor behind Ras el Tin Point, and in the harbor there was a bustle of ships oiling, coaling, painting, refitting, storing, watering, signaling back & forth. Troops poured into town from East Africa, furious that their winter work was canceled...
Height of the debate is a furious 39-page chapter in which Clive explains at biographical length just why he no longer proposes to risk his life for the upper classes. His arguments, neither politically rigid nor in any sense pacifist, are extraordinarily hot stuff to serve up in wartime. He does not persist in his desertion; but his change of heart is not so solidly developed as his anger. Hence This Above All, though full of provocative data, is in the long run a disappointment. For Eric Knight merely mutters some phrases about the wisdom of the heart...