Word: ardent
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...lover, Charles Brousse was the most ardent of all those I met in my career...
...British Intelligence under the code name Cynthia. Her real name: Elizabeth Pack. Using the boudoir as Ian Fleming's hero uses a Beretta, she was described by her wartime boss as "the greatest unsung heroine of the war." After the war Cynthia married her onetime prey, the ardent Charles, and with him retreated to a remote 10th century French chateau where she died last week, at 53, of throat cancer...
...feared that Johnson, even though he had helped move the U.S. away from isolationism as a fledgling Representative under Franklin D. Roosevelt, would withdraw G.I.s from the Continent and retreat into a Fortress America. Asians worried that Johnson, even though he had been one of F.D.R.'s most ardent New Dealers, would not be "flexible" and "liberal" enough. Africans fretted that Johnson, although he had outraged Southern conservatives in 1960 when he tacked civil rights legislation onto a minor bill and rammed it through the Senate, would torpedo civil rights. And Moscow was alarmed that Johnson, despite the fact...
Died. Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, 70, ardent Zionist, since 1917 leader of The Temple in Cleveland, one of the nation's largest Reformed Jewish congregations, a fifth-generation rabbi who with Rabbi Stephen Wise in 1943 organized the lobby that was instrumental in persuading Congress in 1945 to declare in favor of a Jewish national home, later presented the case for Palestinian partition before the U.N., in 1948 was pleased to see the creation of Israel itself; of a heart attack; in Cleveland...
...look at, some influential Republicans were following his advice. About 20 of them traveled recently to Philadelphia for an unpublicized luncheon meeting with the Pennsylvania Governor. It was held in the office of Tom McCabe, vice president of Scott Paper Co., longtime Pennsylvania Republican money raiser and an ardent Scranton admirer...