Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little is known about Kozlov except that he ranks coequal in the Kremlin hierarchy with First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. Once an ardent Stalinist ("The Soviet people cannot for one moment forget the bloody intrigues of American imperialists who try to plunge mankind into a new world war"), he helped swing Communism's 130-man Central Committee behind Khrushchev in his key victory over the Stalinists in June 1957, has since risen rapidly in power...
Judge Hooper's decision, which keeps the schools open, is intended to "clarify the issues"-in effect, to challenge the state law. Said he: "Even the most ardent segregationists in the land, though bitterly opposed to such ruling, now recognize that segregated public schools are not permitted...
Besides, the original dream is not dead; it is only seen to be more evolutionary, just as the German nation ultimately emerged out of the North German customs union. And even such an ardent supranationalist as Monnet is now inclined to believe that a European federation, if it comes, will spring from a gradual change in the habits, tastes and prejudices of Europe's peoples. It no longer takes the huffing of a Stalin or the threats of a Khrushchev to make Western Europeans unite naturally...
...typically Liberian reason for bothering to run at all. "Not being particularly opposed to the continuation in office, of President Tubman," a church organist had said in his formal platform, "this venture of mine is divinely inspired. It is purely sportsmanlike, and is in response to the ardent desire of Dr. Tubman for fair and friendly competition...
...words of Brooklyn Democrat Joseph T. Sharkey, "robbing us." The point: New York City contributes roughly 50% of the state budget, gets back only 38% of state expenditures on services. But one lone Republican, standing against a house divided, threw in an argument that stung the most ardent secessionists. Said Stanley M. Isaacs, onetime Theodore Roosevelt Bull Mooser, the only councilman to vote no to secession: "Remember that more than one-half of the prisoners in state institutions come from New York City . . . What would you do with all the criminals you now farm out to institutions upstate? Would...