Word: ardente
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...Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler enlarged the vocabulary last week, declaring that all of Nixon's previous statements on Watergate were "inoperative." Not incorrect, not misinformed, not untrue-simply inoperative, like batteries gone dead. Euphemisms notwithstanding, the Nixon Administration's verbal record on Watergate is enough to turn ardent believers into skeptics. Some examples of "inoperative" statements from Administration officials who misspoke themselves...
...would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration...
...this time, Ackermann and two popular Independents, Walter Sullivan and Thomas Danehy, seem assured of re-election. Owens, who is certain to lose his CCA endorsement, and Frank H. Duehay '55 appear in trouble. Donald Fantini, an Independent member of the School Committee and an ardent Frisoli supporter, Leonard Russell, a three-time loser who trailed Duehay by only 36 votes the last time around, and Dom Christofaro of Cambridgeport should prove the strongest challengers...
With a domestic grain shortage staring them in the face, and consumers complaining about rising food prices, Nixon and Butz quickly reversed farm policy. Prodded by Treasury Secretary George Shultz, an ardent free marketeer, they proposed a new laissez-faire farm policy that would abandon some price supports and reduce other subsidies. They returned as much acreage as possible to production, dropped export subsidies and prepared to "empty" the Government storage bins. Though they forecast that such moves would cause food prices to level off after midyear, that was not soon enough for irate consumers...
...aimlessly about in search of an actor to play it." Now that Nasser is dead, now that his successors are gray and conventional, it is the implausible figure of Muammar Gaddafi that has acquired the role of an Arab Parsifal. He is a mere 31 years old, handsome, devout, ardent, even fanatical. "The Arabs need to be told the facts," he is fond of saying. "The Arabs need someone to make them weep, not someone to make them laugh." Nasser once told the young Gaddafi: "You remind me of myself when I was your age." Gaddafi was profoundly moved...