Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work to show their appreciation. Congressman Albert Morano of Connecticut saluted "the marked contrast to the claptrap coming from other stations." Composer Richard Rodgers wrote a grateful letter on behalf of his ill wife; Cartoonist Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff said: "Like many another night worker, I am your ardent supporter." A group...
Explaining Soapy. The big question in the minds of Soapy's ardent friends and well-wishers is whether he can ever revert to the independent old Soapy of Salisbury, Princeton and Michigan. Or will his political indebtedness, like his graying hair, increase as he progresses further into politics? The questions are extremely pertinent because Soapy, as ever, has budgeted his time closely. He would like to be in the Senate by 1954 and in the White House...
...high point of all anti-Conant fervor came just before the last war when the president was an ardent advocate of aid to Great Britain and further intervention by the United States. He naturally supported the nation's first peace-time draft. This naturally engendered a certain hostility from the College, since some undergraduates got the idea that Conant was trying to force them all into the Army to get shot at. This was hardly a fair attitude, especially since one of his two sons was at the time eminently draftable, but student picketing of Conant speeches nevertheless became...
...opposition. The only son of a Prussian civil servant in the fortress town of Kulm (now part of Red Poland), he joined the Kaiser's army in 1914; six months later, his right arm was severed at the shoulder by a Russian machine-gun burst. He became an ardent Socialist, railing unheard at the "Kaiser's war." By the time he could get anyone to listen, as a brash Socialist Deputy in the moribund Weimar Republic, the enemy was Hitler. Schumacher told Goebbels in 1932: "The whole National Socialist movement is only a lasting appeal to all that...
...years Louis left the house long enough to make an inconspicuous trip to a local barbershop. (In between visits to the barber, Louis trimmed his own hair with a cutting comb.) One thing he didn't bother to do, however, was register for the draft. Constance Patton, an ardent believer in astrology, never felt the stars were quite right for this step...