Word: ardente
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...reference was to White House Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld, an ardent skier himself, who had toted along a satchel of papers to Vail. Ford was acutely conscious of some press complaints that he should not be schussing downhill while the nation's economy was slipping in the same direction. He also received unseasonal greetings in the form of the latest Gallup poll. The survey reported that because of the economy, only 42% of the American people approved of the way he was handling his job-the lowest rating he has received since taking office...
...other things, Laird wants oil imports chopped by 50% and a strict gasoline-rationing program much like the one in force during World War II (see box page 14). Though Energy Czar Rogers Morton, Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns and some leading Democrats, including Senator Henry Jackson, have been ardent supporters of stringent conservation measures, none of them have gone so far as to call for all-out rationing...
Right-Winger. In the early 1950s Hunt emerged as one of the nation's most controversial champions of right-whig causes. He was convinced that Communists, socialists and liberals (he made no distinction between them) were out to bring down the nation. Hunt was an ardent supporter of Red-Baiting Senator Joseph McCarthy; he was willing to accept the enormous tax breaks of the oil-depletion allowance but opposed spending for public welfare. He spent millions to propound his views through radio programs and published a book, Alpaca, outlining his version of the perfect national constitution. Among other things...
...Viet Nam War had ended for Americans. A comrade-in-arms, described by Alpert's attorney as her lover, had been killed in 1971 as lawmen stormed New York's Attica state prison to quell a convict uprising. Over the years Alpert, a Swarthmore graduate and ardent feminist, concluded that the radical movement was male dominated and sexist. She also tired of life as a fugitive. "I did not want to spend my life hiding out," she told Federal District Judge Milton Pollack. Accompanied by her parents (her father is a dental-equipment manufacturer), Alpert described her life...
...Arthur Conan Doyle, already formidable in number, are proliferating with the breeding speed of the fruit fly. One Manhattan bookstore has an entire window display devoted solely to these works. There is only one James Joyce Society, but in the U.S. alone there are four official groups of ardent Sherlock Holmes fanciers. Apparently, the master sleuth defies definition. In a sense he himself is the case that cannot be solved, a character about whom speculation never ceases...