Word: fiercer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which annoyed Adolf Hitler, who last week called for fiercer action by his U-boats and Air Force to enforce his counter-blockade against Britain. Neutral ships were warned against joining Allied convoys. Scandinavians in the Baltic were advised to use the Kiel Canal to facilitate German search and seizure. And out over the North Sea sped squadrons of Nazi planes to attack the Allied convoys, a new phase of World War II. In the first two encounters of this sort last week, British escort warships held the Nazis off with gunfire until British fighters could arrive from their land...
...novelist describe a hurricane at sea and straightway critics raise a hue because his hurricane is a pale imitation of the one Joseph Conrad described 35 years ago in Typhoon. The difference is put down to Conrad's superior literary talents. Actually, hurricanes were fiercer in Conrad's day; that is to say, sailing ships ran into more of them. Modern steamers, tipped off by radio, usually steer clear of them-no difficult matter, since hurricanes travel across open sea at no more than 15 m.p.h.* Richard Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica (originally published...
...truly, after the next war, let the winner take over the beaten country and keep it down. If popular opinion gets strong, and riots start, shoot down a couple of thousand of the natives. If that makes the riots even fiercer, shoot down thousands more. Sooner or later they'll get used to subservience, and then wars with that particular country, whether it be Great Britain, France, Italy, or Germany again, will be no more. SATAN
...South. Fighting was fiercer, Italian progress more impressive. Troops under command of General Rudolfo Graziani were stretched not 60 but 400 mi. on a "provincewide front" from the Webbe Shibeli almost to the borders of British Somaliland. Fierce nests of Ethiopian sharpshooters and unseasonable rains that bogged tanks and trucks hub-deep had held up the southern advance for days, but now Italian troops, moving again in three columns, had crossed over half the Ogaden Desert, were drawing closer & closer to Harar, chief stronghold of Ras Nassibu, commander of the Ethiopian armies of the south in Ogaden. Scouting planes zooming...
Though Guy de Maupassant still has more readers than the late great Anton Chekhov, the Russian's partisans are fiercer than the Frenchman's, still tell all comers that Chekhov is the best short-story writer that ever lived. Admirers either of Maupassant or Chekhov will find echoes of both in these 20 stories and sketches. Though one or two would look well in any wardrobe, most of these Russian shorts are made to hang on a Soviet peg. An "artist in uniform," as Critic Max Eastman calls Author Romanof (TIME, May 14), he usually points a Marxian...