Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disastrous American social philosophy. The very warp and woof of American society is woven with the virile strands of Darwin and Herbert Spencer. Everyone knows that such stalwarts as Andrew Carnegie and Jay Gould, the true fathers of our country, the pioneers of our economic Manifest Destiny, were ardent champions of the tooth-and-nail existence...
...worked hard to boost overseas loans. Back in the early days of the Administration Treasury Secretary Humphrey, who had to lend the bank its funds, was skeptical, wanted to cut down. But after studying the bank's consistent profits ($59 million in fiscal 1955), he became an ardent booster, hand-picked Waugh and backed his policy of increasing the flow of loans. Now President Waugh is funneling out new loans at a greater rate than last year. Among them: $19.6 million to the Santos-Jundiai Railway in Brazil, $3,300,000 to Chile for more steel, $14 million...
...spent a lifetime collecting this treasure-trove was a proud, bantam-sized Catalan who exploded onto the political scene in 1901 as founder of a Catalan regionalist party, rose to fame as an ardent spokesman for Catalonian autonomy. Hand in hand with Cambo's political success went his reputation as a financial wizard and "the Andrew Mellon of Spain." When Cambo's political party went down to defeat at the polls on the verge of Spain's civil war, Cambo wisely decamped, ended up in Buenos Aires, where he lived handsomely on the returns of his insurance...
Against him, nervous and unhappy in his role, was Home Secretary Gwilym Lloyd-George (son of the late great World War I Prime Minister), whose position under the Queen gives him the final say in matters of criminal life or death. Himself once an ardent abolitionist, Lloyd-George lowered his eyes like a man condemned, as he outlined the government's position. "In taking life," he said, "the state performs its most solemn function . . . There can be no Home Secretary who would not be thankful to be relieved of this terrible burden. [But] if there is reason to think...
...close fellowship of British ghost hunters, whose passionate efforts to expose psychic hoaxes are coupled with an ardent desire to believe in the real thing, there was no more joy over the exposure of Harry Price than there was among anthropologists over the fall of the Piltdown man (TIME, Nov. 30, 1953). "Our criticisms have given us no satisfaction," wrote Price's accusers. Harry Price himself, having died in 1948, was beyond making any rebuttal, unless by further spiritual manifestation. The whole business, mourned the Glasgow Herald, "is a melancholy proof of human frailty...