Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glowed Daladier: "A new and stronger Poland is rising from the ruins . . . Everywhere, we witnessed an ardent, admirable patriotism, and also moving demonstrations of warm friendship for France. If war doesn't come before, Poland in ten years will be a great nation . . . She profoundly wants peace. But there is no doubt that if the Germans cross the Oder, there will...
...Keppel's first assignments was to convince two old friends, both distinguished educators, to accept the deanship of the Education School. Both refused, but by that time Keppel had grown so ardent in convincing them that he could find no excuse to back out himself when Buck offered him the job. Only 32 at the time, he was about to assume one of the most important posts in American education. And he was scared...
...Belgium too. EDC was debated last week. Socialist Paul-Henri Spaak, one of Europe's most ardent champions of unity, threw all his oratory into the argument. "Could we ask young Belgians to defend Europe on the Elbe." he asked, "while the Germans stayed home?" The chamber was half empty during the debate, for Belgium has apparently already made up its mind: to ratify...
...quickly rose to the rank of captain and won the D.S.O. for his heroism in battle. But he returned from the trenches horrified by the senseless slaughter he had witnessed, and resolved never again to aid a war effort. The casual thoughts of pre-war days crystallized into an ardent pacifism...
Another obstacle was the notion that private enterprise is eager to develop nuclear power plants. AEC spent precious years exploring this possibility. Said Murray, an ardent free-enterprise man: "The answer that we derived after several years of probing this problem, with the help of competent, interested industrialists, was negative." Many companies wanted to get into the game, but they all demanded in one way or another that the Government pay the bill...