Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ohio thus has little priority in choice for Statehood than is two rivals. Of course, central location is a big factor, for closing the gap between the Atlantic Seaboard and the Pacific frontier has always been an ardent hope for all Americans. But a hasty decision based merely on location may lead to disagreement and possible civil dissentation. Only through the reports of investigating parties can Congress accurately study and legislate the tricky problem of Ohio an Statehood...
...Empire, Christianity's appeal was not that of a heavenly salvation after death, but of the coming of a heavenly ordained society of brotherly sharing right here upon our common earth-and of the resurrection of the faithful dead to share in it. That hope met the same ardent response then as the not wholly dissimilar Communist hope meets among the dispossessed today. But the basic Christian methods of overcoming evil with active goodness was and is in diametrical opposition to the Communist methods . . The one method helps create the world it reams of; the other destroys...
...Trujillo had discovered at U.N. that there was no ardent welcome for an envoy who also happened to be the unsavory dean of Western Hemisphere dictators; he needed an excuse for a graceful exit from stage center. Fellow Dictator Joseph Stalin died just in time to provide it. "The developments of the past few days within the Soviet Union," Trujillo announced importantly, forced him to quit the U.N. and head for home to serve as Foreign Minister (for his dummy-President, brother Hector). He left the impression that in the days of confusion and tumult sure to follow Stalin...
Hollywood Tough Guy Edward G. Robinson is a dedicated amateur in the world of art, and filmdom's most ardent art collector. The passion for paintings, he says, is "a rewarding love affair, even if it takes over your house, your family, your income and your life." This week 40 of Robinson's prize oils take over part of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and in May the collection will move on to the National Gallery in Washington...
...Northwest's eyes will focus on Douglas McKay, the new Secretary of the Interior. An ardent states-rights governor of Oregon for the past two years, he told the Senate Committee of the Interior that "public power was getting most of the breaks in the Northwest." This may mean that McKay will not object if Congress fails to appropriate money for new transmission lines; it might even mean that McKay will want to let the private companies build the new projects on the Columbia. In any event, private utilities all over the country will eagerly watch developments in the Northwest...