Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retreat "covered" by Norwegians, whose Colonel Ole Getz complained bitterly, and surrendered to the Germans, when he found that the Allies had left him to fight with an open flank and rear. (The British said Colonel Getz's superior, General Otto Ruge, understood their plan, went with them.) Furiously pursuing German airmen raked and bombarded the launches loading on Namsos' concatenated waterfront. They dumped rack after rack of bombs at transports and warships steaming away from shore. How many boatloads sank in the inferno the Nazis poured on them may not be known until the post-war opening...
Quick as a flash Johnson cracked Sullens across the back of his head with a cane, and blood splattered everywhere. The editor whirled, knocked away the cane, and pitched the 6 ft. 3 in., 195 lb., 60-year-old Governor across a chair, smashing it, dropped astride him, landing furious rights and lefts in his face. The embattled editor was hauled off, and trumpeting that it was "a cowardly attempt to assassinate me from the rear," was rushed to the hospital for scalp stitches. The Governor was put to bed at the Executive Mansion a block away...
...Jayvee race was perhaps the most exciting of the afternoon's thrilling program. Harvard's strong boatload, stroked by Colt Wagner, set off at a furious pace but found itself unable to get ahead of either Syracuse or M.I.T. until the final sprint...
...Within a few days the entire Narvik region should be ours again," said the authorized Norwegian military spokesman in describing furious fighting in the full-force attack to wrest Narvik from the Germans...
...Ballet Russe, S. Hurok seemed to have met his match in Colonel Wassily de Basil, the Russian who had assembled the troupe. In all published matter, de Basil's name had to be in type equal to, or bigger than, Hurok's. There was much furious measuring of type, and once Hurok had to go out, pastepot in hand, and stick the Colonel's name on some three-sheet posters from which it had been omitted. Today Colonel de Basil manages a rival troupe and earthy S. Hurok, who knows what he likes, is final arbiter...