Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contradicts this statement later in his letter, however, by noting, "I am in sympathy with White Citizens' Councils." His avowed purpose is "to promote segregation among serious-thinking students," and he calls John Kasper, ardent racial agitator, "a great American patriot...
...years, Democrats elected more mayors (29) than Republicans did (23). In Pittsburgh. Mayor David Leo Lawrence's fourth-term win established another record-breaking plurality. And in Republican New Jersey, where, to dike the Democratic tide, both President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon added weight to the ardent campaigning of Republican Malcolm Forbes, Governor Robert Meyner swamped Forbes (see below...
...portraiture, he can cut down to size those who displease him. Of King George I: "Here on English soil stood an unprepossessing figure, an obstinate and humdrum German martinet with dull brains and coarse tastes." When he describes combat, which is a good deal of the time, his ardent prose is apt to be high-flown: "The lure of gold and the sting of Cadiz inspired the leaders, and at last they let loose their brave men, who fought with indomitable fury...
...seethed through Poland ever since Gomulka declared his provisional independence from Moscow. Its unquestioned leader is a gawky, 36-year-old political philosopher whose devastating attacks on the Russians' brand of Communism have already made him a hero to Poland's students. "Leszek Kolakowski," said one ardent young Communist last week, "is much more important for Polish intellectual development than Khrushchev's speech...
Through the turmoil. Harry Ashmore's telephone shrilled around the clock with threatening calls from agitators, who were fired by Governor Faubus' cry that Editor Ashmore was the worst of all possible culprits, "an ardent integrationist." Little Rock's white-supremacist Capital Citizens' Council (annual dues: $5) dubbed Ashmore "Public Enemy No. i." Eagerly abetted by some less scrupulous competitors, a statewide boycott against "that nigger-lovin' paper" had cost the 137-year-old Gazette (circ. 99,573) 3,000 subscribers by week...