Word: ardent
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...Fish Caught. Seven thousand men and 3,500 women were interned as enemy aliens. The net thrown out for fifth columnists and quislings brought in some bigger fish, including Leader Sir Oswald Mosley of the British Union of Fascists; Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay, Conservative M. P. and ardent Hitlerite; onetime M. P. John Beckett, militant pacifist and nuisance (he once tried to steal the Speaker's mace in the House of Commons); Germany's master spy and saboteur in World War I, Captain Franz von Rintelen...
...slow and formal threnody of the waltz, a fellow kind of felt he was of some importance. . . . The tunes tangled in one's dreams for days; and the pressure of a warm hand-and even if it was a little sweaty and sticky it was young and ardent -might easily linger through life...
Born in Ghent in Flemish Belgium 76 years ago, young Leo became an ardent photographer. At night, when his trusting father thought he was studying, Leo was busy in his darkroom. When he tried out the indelible properties of silver nitrate on a schoolmate's face, the other boy got panicky and went to a doctor, who suggested hydrochloric acid as a remover. The results were painful. Haled before a school board, Baekeland put some silver nitrate on his own skin, quickly and harmlessly removed it with another chemical...
...with the Allies, he proclaimed a state of war, placed the occupied sections of Norway under a Reich Commissar, and assigned Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo the task of "pacifying" the country. To exercise supreme Government authority in Norway, Hitler sent to Oslo one of his youngest and most ardent disciples, 42-year-old Josef Terboven, Gauleiter of Essen, publisher of Field Marshal Hermann Goring's Essener National-Zeitung, a Jew-hater and energetic protagonist of the Nazi Herrenvolk (ruling caste) ideology...
...ardent supporter of the Allied cause, Professor McLaughlin is an advocate of American intervention...