Word: fiercest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee's fiercest blasts were directed at Administration mismanagement, but Truman steadfastly continued to vote the New Deal line. When it came to choosing a Vice President, this made him palatable to C.I.O. as a compromise choice. He has voted as a liberal on Negro measures, such as anti-polltax measures. He is halfway a Southerner (his Confederate parents were driven from their home in the Civil War), so the Southerners can swallow him. And he has been so consistently "regular" that the bosses know he can be trusted to go down the line. So last week in Chicago...
...course lay right into the center of six converging searchlights. By now we could both hear and feel puffs of ack-ack. Root ordered the bomb-bay doors opened, gripped the wheel tighter and said: "Here we go, fellows." He pointed the nose right into the midst of the fiercest glare of lights, the worst bursts...
...British, who knew good men when they saw them, put them at machine guns in General Grant tanks headed for the front. The 13-hour assault on Jap positions that followed turned out to be one of the fiercest battles yet waged in those hills...
...assault on Europe reached its fiercest pitch yet. In seven days more thark 25,000 sorties (one mission by one plane) were hurled against Hitler's Fortress from bases in England. More than half the planes were four-engined U.S. and R.A.F. bombers: they laid better than 32,000 tons of bombs...
...steps loitered an informer. He counted one, two, three-half a dozen prizes, waited to count no more. An hour later the Gestapo burst in, arrested 30 of Norway's fiercest patriots...