Word: ardente
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...interfaith age, Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy pray together and picket together, and hardly a church exists that has not been preached to by a minister of another faith. But there is a point where ardent advocates of ecumenism draw the line: interCommunion. To receive the consecrated bread and wine together is the ultimate expression of Christian unity, and to do so lightly is morally wrong as long as Christianity remains divided...
Pets, by definition, are for petting, but sometimes even the most ardent member of the A.S.P.C.A. must feel like blowing the whistle. Where once the North American dog had to beg for his supper and sleep outdoors on the welcome mat, now he is stuffed with Gaines Burgers, sprayed with Kennel No. 5, given the softest living-room sofa, and dolled up in costumes that should make Lassie hide her tail between her legs...
Died. Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, 90, chairman since 1954 of the National Geographic Society and editor until then of its magazine, an ardent conservationist, traveler and journalist, who spiked the once stuffily academic Geographic with handsome color spreads and eyewitness reports, including the first conquest of Mount Everest, thereby hiking circulation from 900 to 2,000,000 (now 4,500,000) at his retirement; of a stroke; in Baddeck, Nova Scotia...
Despite an aura of unflappable self-confidence that sometimes approached arrogance, Bundy was willing-and able-to learn. Although he had been one of the Kennedy Administration's most ardent hawks in supporting the bungled Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961, he later consistently counseled caution in such tight situations as the Berlin Wall crisis and the Cuban missile confrontation...
...President Humberto Castello Branco made no secret of his views. "We must acknowledge," he told delegates, "the inanity of our wanting collective protection and action without first creating effective machinery for collective decision-making and joint action." This is likely to stir a storm of protest from such ardent defenders of nonintervention as Mexico and Chile...