Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only the most ardent admirer of the Dunces, for example, will be eager to add to his record library a song whose punch line...
...Gaulle's return. Paradoxically, even some of the noisiest proponents of a tough line in Algeria, such as Jacques Soustelle, believe that a France revitalized by De Gaulle could give Algeria some form of self-government inside a North African Federation related to France. "The strong." argues one ardent Gaullist, "can afford to be generous...
...Government had not the faintest intention of giving Lebanon such sums-but still hadn't the Lebanese government, onetime ardent supporter of the Eisenhower Doctrine, now proved to all and sundry how independent of Washington it really...
Youthful (37) King Mahendra, ardent chess player, hunter and poet,* is an absolute ruler who earnestly does not want to be one. All week he pored over new drafts for a possible constitution. He also called in the leaders of four major political parties, got them to agree to help him set up a coalition government to rule until the scheduled general election that he hopes to hold in 1959. But it is a sign of Nepal's condition that in spite of himself, Mahendra, King of Kings, Five Times Godly, Valorous Warrior and Divine Emperor, continues to govern...
...women loved each other "with a love surpassing that of friendship." Their ardent relationship was only intensified by the fact that male admirers fairly swarmed around both of them-readily swooning when the "dazzling Juliette" draped her graceful neck around a harp and plucked a few plangent twangs, readily reaching for underdoses of poison when frustrated amour demanded the appearances ol a tragic exit...