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Word: furiously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frequent and happy intervals, he bursts from these poses into wild assaults on the earthbound sanity of his viewers. He restlessly roams the stage and studio audience, leaps from piano stool to microphone and back, urgently seizes and spurns his fellow actors, addresses furious asides to his network, his sponsor (Motorola) and other comics. He hymned his nose's birthday ("It was the first time in history that a nose outweighed the child!"); sang (with Stooge Candy Candido) an appealing duet called The Pussy Cat Song; displayed an entertaining low comedy that is as innocent as it is rare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: One-Man Show | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...next night the Reds staged a furious counterattack, heralded by bugling, whistling, and the brazen clang of cymbals which dismally reminded the G.I.s of the surprise Chinese attack in early November. The South Koreans lost all of their ground north of Tokchon, and the town as well. Said a U.S. officer: "We can only assume that the R.O.K. II Corps [6th, 7th and 8th Divisions] disintegrated." The 1st Cavalry Division had to be rushed up to prevent a breakthrough. One company of the 25th Division was overrun ("There's damned little of that company left," the assistant division commander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Stalled | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...newly-wed wife of a magazine writer. On his father's orders, Mercury brings the bride and groom to a Grecian inn near Mt. Olympus, where Jupiter goes to work. By disguising himself as her husband, he finally seduces the young lady in what may be called a furious first-act climax...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/30/1950 | See Source »

...before branching, and gave one man "a particularly unpleasant, anxious feeling, which is excited irrestibly by the continuing shadow and the confined outlook." Rattlesnakes made the white men turn still whiter with fear. "As for the Buff [alo]," wrote 17th Century Great Lakes Explorer Pierre Radisson, "it is a furious animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: As the Voyagers Saw It | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...told, and draws the faces of the characters. Amato and Johnston-who each get 10% of Capp's profits, or about $30,000 a year-produce figures and backgrounds and finish the laborious chore of inking in the finished product. Capp does his work in long, furious bursts. He usually turns out a month's strips in two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Die Monstersinger | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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