Word: ardente
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...South, where natural gas is plentiful. For motorists, the Pacific Lighting system has not solved a key problem: the bulky gas cylinders require most of a car's trunk space. The $300 charge for converting a car to natural gas is also likely,to deter all but ardent conservationists.'Still, the prospect of greater operating economy could attract fleet owners, start mass production, and eventually lower the conversion charge. If all U.S. vehicles ran on natural gas, its advocates claim, smog could be reduced by as much...
...more agonizingly aware of this than Charles Franklin Luce, chairman of New York City's Consolidated Edison, the world's biggest electric utility. Before coming to Con Ed. Luce dealt with environmental problems as Under Secretary of the Interior. An ardent outdoorsman, he now finds himself cast as a villain by New Yorkers, who have long regarded Con Edison as a blatant polluter. Last week they were incensed over Con Ed's request for a 14% rate increase, its second in three years. Con Ed is in financial trouble, much of it aggravated by a longstanding inefficiency...
...extravagance as the miserable satyr play of a smaller time. This business of post-romantic it self is a continuously evolving, because imperishable, force in music. The post-romantic period was a continuation of the nineteenth-century attempts to fuse literature and music in the creation of a more ardent poeticism and evocative drama. The popular portrayal of this period also habitually refers to it as the death-knell of the symphony; in which traditional forms were dealt a stunning blow and collapsed from sheer exhaustion after the breathless and reckless creation of munificent musical cathedrals on the consumptive soil...
...marriage - and some within - are criminal offenses. Adultery and forni cation are commonly outlawed. Sodomy is illegal in nearly every state, even be tween spouses; New York is an ex ception that does not bar it within marriage. Until a new code goes into effect next July, a too ardent lover in Kansas can get up to five years at hard labor for successfully luring his girl friend to bed, and up to 21 years for merely trying. In Indianapolis, simply entering the motel room of a person of the opposite sex (subject to a number of exceptions for relatives...
...inventor, former Secretary of the Navy (1939-40) and crusading Governor of New Jersey (1941-44); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Lacking his father's genius, Edison turned his hand to business and politics-first as president of the family's multimillion-dollar enterprises, then as ardent New Dealer. In 1936, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy and three years later assumed the full Cabinet post, in which he supervised the Navy's intensive shipbuilding program. Then, as reform-minded New Jersey Governor, he ran head-on into the corrupt political machine of Jersey...