Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grudging or not, it was a decision the Assembly could not easily go back on. This week, as Faure called a full-dress debate on the election issue itself, all parties knocked themselves out protesting their ardent approval for the idea of consulting the beautiful, sovereign people...
Only Words. Like all good things, however, the happy life at Pont-l'Evéque was eventually soured by those who took too great advantage of it. The principal serpent in Warden Billa's paradise was an ardent, free-lancing lover who sent so many uncensored love letters that authorities took notice. An investigation followed, and the carefree warden was arrested along with eight of his prisoners...
...Ulsterman who began life as a tea-merchant's clerk and ended up a part-time writer living alone with his dogs in Belfast, playing bridge and croquet. When he died at 70, in 1947, he left behind a handful of novels and about a roomful of ardent admirers. One was Novelist E. M. Forster, who now introduces the Tom Barber trilogy of novels to U.S. readers. Reid's work, he concedes, has "puerilities and longueurs." But it is the work of "an extremely serious writer...
...seized power in 1945. As a tough dictator, a maker and user of violence, Juan Perón gave many Argentines cause for hatred and anger. Among the revolt's leaders were Roman Catholics outraged by Perón's attacks on the church, ardent nationalists opposed to his oil-exploitation contract with a Yanqui company, sincere patriots sick of the corrosion of liberty, dissident officers who lost their commands in his purges...
...artist's fictions. The last lines he committed to publication are a rollicking apostrophe to life that few other men of 80-or 40-could have written: "A whirlwind of primordial forces seized and bore me into the realm of ecstasy. And high and stormy, under my ardent caresses ... I saw the surging of that queenly bosom...