Word: ardente
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...Name of the Game. Yet so petulant have many Washington newsmen become that David Lawrence, no ardent Johnson admirer himself, has taken the trouble to point out that the press has no God-given right to "cross-examine the Chief Executive," and that "it is not the obligation of the President to enlighten the press promptly on every subject of importance." Like all Presidents before him, Johnson makes his own press rules and he is not likely to change them because of criticism. Despite the complaints that Johnson favors select reporters, it remains a fact that almost any reputable journalist...
Died. Lady Lansdowne, 46, California-born wife of the Marquess of Lansdowne, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs in Britain's last Conservative government, an ardent hunter and crack shot who won the 1952 British women's clay-pigeon championship; of self-inflicted shotgun wounds suffered, apparently by accident, in the gun room of their Perthshire, Scotland, estate where her daughter Caroline, 17, died under almost identical circumstances nine years...
...Vietnam was under French colonial rule. The subsistence production of the Vietnamese peasantry was used to support a class of landlords and the French colonial administration. This repression resulted in several unsuccessful peasant uprisings. The biggest, which occured in 1930, was led by Ho Chi Minh, an ardent Vietnamese nationalist who had studied Marxist revolutionary methods in Moscow...
...rich, unstable matron, Barbara finds ample cause for panic. She dreams pleasant dreams about an ardent young man, but wakes to a nightmare life with an insanely jealous husband who has no eyeballs, like Orphan Annie. His blindness encourages him to visualize elaborate hanky-panky between his wife and his attorney, Robert Taylor. When Husband Howard disappears in a fiery explosion, Barbara grows restive. Howard's cane begins tap-tapping around the house at midnight. She moves into the apartment behind a beauty parlor she owns, clearly preferring the mud-packed monstrosities that sit out front...
Dorothy Parker to the contrary, ardent males and astigmatic lasses hit it off like Beefeater and vermouth. What the pass thrower seldom realizes in such cases these days is that the eyes he's making eyes at are sous cloche. How could he? Of 6,000,000 contact wearers in the U.S. last year, nearly 65% were women. Since contact lenses first became widely available in 1953, bad eyesight has not only won social acceptability; among the young, particularly, it has become a status symbol...