Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even such an ardent evangelist as Sears, Roebuck's Chairman Theodore Houser, whose company is noted for its huge profit-sharing payoffs, admits that the plan will work no wonders "in a business where a major part of the cost of the product is represented by the cost of raw materials." Furthermore, says Houser, profit-sharing "is not the first step in building a program of sound employee relations, but the last step [after a company] can find nothing else...
...Holy See early this month appointed an archbishop coadjutor for the archdiocese of Seville with rights and functions equal to Segura's and with the "right of succession.'' He is affable, 50-year-old José Maria Bueno y Monreal, former bishop of Vitoria and an ardent supporter of Franco...
...other prominent New York casualty was Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., who lost his race for attorney-general by about 170,000 votes. Undoubtedly he had something less than an ardent desire to be attorney-general of the state and probably would have been rather distressed at the prospect of actually serving. His motives in taking the nomination seem to have had a slight touch of Machiavellianism. He apparently accepted it with the expectation that even if the whole ticket lost, he could decisively outrun the other Democratic candidates and so win recognition as the strongest vote-getter in the state...
...said. "I've been insulted. I've been humiliated, I'll have my revenge one day." But Ali was beaten, and he knew it. Casually next evening, handsome Ghulam relaxed at a private showing of a movie called Love in Venice. (He is also an ardent Marilyn Monroe fan.) Thus, last week, a new regime was established in Asia...
...police headquarters the stranger told his story: He was a 28-year-old Hungarian named Imre Komoroczky, for six years a machinist at the Communists' prized Matyas Rakosi Engineering Works near Budapest. Though even his parents were ardent Communists, Imre took a dim view of the New Order. Once before, in 1950, he had tried to escape to the West in a packing crate, but the crate had broken open during transshipment in Prague. Imre was seized and returned to Hungary to spend 14 months in prison...