Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than half the seats in the new 104-man Parliament. Nkrumah's bitterest opponent, Dr. Joseph Danquah, failed to win a seat. At this unhappy news his supporters wept and rolled on the ground. Dr. Danquah's former wife, now an ardent Nkrumah partisan, was the only woman elected to Parliament...
...strategic points, he is busily at work sniping at the works of Magsaysay and of the U.S. His objectives and motives are hotly debated in Manila. His dominant ambition at the moment seems to be to cut Magsaysay down to size. Since Magsaysay is the republic's most ardent pro-American, Recto attacks him by attacking things American. Recto himself maintains that he really likes...
Died. Charles Francis Adams (TIME, Nov. 4, 1946), 87, great-great-grandson of President John Adams, great-grandson of John Quincy, cousin of Henry, yachtsman and onetime Secretary of the Navy (1929-33); after long illness; in Boston. He became an ardent Hoover supporter, but as Navy Secretary bitterly opposed Hoover's reductions in naval appropriations. America's leading yachtsman, he skippered the Resolute to victory over the late Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV in the 1920 America's Cup races, at the age of 73 brought off an unparalleled sweep of U.S. yachting...
Died. Maury Maverick, 58, dumpy, dynamic Texas Democrat, onetime clean-up mayor of San Antonio (1939-41), two-term U.S. Representative (1935-39); of a heart ailment; in San Antonio. An ardent New Dealer and champion of small business, he nonetheless scorned Washington bureaucratese; once, after scanning a subordinate's report, he gruffly coined a capital classic: "Gobbledygook...
Italy has few more appealing public figures than Don Luigi Sturzo, the white-haired priest who founded the Christian Democratic Party, and Giorgio La Pira, the bustling little mayor of Florence. Both are ardent Roman Catholics who believe in infusing militant Christian principle into politics. Both are men of compassion and understanding. Both believe in putting into practice the words of the Gospels. But they emphatically disagree on one vital point: the role of the state in human affairs...