Word: fiercest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was, as usual, a fine ring of righteousness in the General's words but little enlightenment for the country at large as to one of the fiercest, fieriest backstage fights of the New Deal. All Washington knew that a mighty tussle was in progress over the future of NRA. Newshawks got circumstantial glimpses of the contest?a second-hand piece of gossip here, an angry word by way of confirmation there...
...electrocuted while working near high voltage wires in the darkness. Also in the darkness the cruiser Milwaukee had collided with the destroyer Simpson, smashing in the latter's bow and sending her to drydock. And while the fighting was fiercest, Captain William Woods Smyth, commanding the battleship Tennessee, had died of a sinus infection on the hospital ship Relief. Significance- Naval maneuvers have a way of firing the imagination of otherwise level-headed journalists and Exercise M proved to be no exception. "The most impressive and important maneuvers ever conducted by the U. S. battle fleet," breathlessly reported...
...fiercest skirmish in the, utility war last week was being fought in New York State. There in behalf of his reform program Governor Herbert H. Lehman had been quick to press a tactical advantage handed him by the Federal Trade Commission's revelation of letters written to Associated Gas & Electric Co. by a State Senator who was a member of the powerful Public Service Committee and its one-time chairman (TIME, April 9). Alleged letters from bumbling State Senator Warren T. Thayer were discovered, in which the writer hoped that his services had been "satisfactory" to the big holding...
...burning sofa hurtled from a fourth floor window in F entry onto the pavement beneath. For fifteen minutes its flames flared up from the court casting an unholy glare over the usually tranquil House and illuminating the efforts of the brave Cambridge fire ladies in their struggle against the fiercest of the elements...
Throughout the first period the referees shut their eyes to the fiercest kind of rough-&-tumble while Bostonians screeched their delight. In the second period Toronto's truculent "Red" Homer crashed into Boston's "Eddie" Shore, sent him sprawling against the boards. Shore picked himself up, skated straight into Toronto's "Ace" Bailey. When Bailey's head hit the ice, everyone in the Boston Garden could hear the thud. While Bailey's teammates carried him to the dressing room, twitching and writhing with a fractured skull, Horner whizzed up to Shore, whammed...