Word: ardent
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...Islamic and potent Sardauna of Sokoto, an Arabian Nights figure in a billowing green turban and red velvet robe, whose Moslem Hausas consider the pagans of the South no better than savages; boyish, chubby-faced Yoruba Chieftain Obafemi Awolowo, one of the shrewdest political minds in Africa and an ardent champion of regional self-government for his own people; scholarly and ambitious Dr. Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, the rich and demagogic U.S.-educated favorite of some 3,000,000 Ibo tribesmen in the East; and last but far from least, the Moslem commoner Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, an oracle of moderation...
Himself Yorkshire-born. Hubert Nicholson, 49. is the first novelist in years to give tragic stature to the mute inglorious farmer. He uses the pungent local dialect tellingly but never unintelligibly. Above all, he has created one of those rare images of an ardent, convention-defying love in which the lovers do not "know what or care where or ask why''-but the reader page-hungrily does...
...people thought him biased, why Catholics were upset by his behavior, why Englishmen thought him un-English. Author Speaight's book tells the reasons why frankly and fully, but without ever belittling the genius of the man best remembered for his verse who wrote so prophetically in his ardent youth...
...puffing after them, crying: "They're stealing my painting!" Not far from the gallery, the Jarivistes stopped and set down the one-eyed metronome. One of them hauled out a pistol, took aim and fired, destroying Object to Destroy. At that point the police appeared, late but ardent...
...course was set by cigar-chomping Ludwig Erhard, 60. A Bavarian peasant's son, Erhard rose to power after World War II when the Allies, impressed by his lack of Nazi ties, made him Economic Administrator of the U.S. and British occupation zones. When Allied officers, not so ardent as he for Marktwirtschaft (free enterprise economy), refused to let him end rationing and price control, Erhard slipped into his office one Sunday morning and issued the decree. U.S. General Lucius Clay administered a solemn reproof: "Herr Erhard, my advisers tell me this is a terrible mistake." Replied Erhard: "General...