Word: ardente
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...rolling green hills of Alabama, a ceremony took place last week that would make the most ardent exponent of Protestant-Catholic amity polish his glasses. Roman Catholic St. Bernard College, founded and staffed by Benedictine monks, was ending its first academic year of accreditation as a senior college with a solemn High Mass in the stadium, commencement exercises, blessing of class rings. The odd thing about it was that of the 494 St. Bernard students, 394 were Protestants-most of them Bible-belt Baptists...
...most of Perón's ardent followers in Argentina would be cleared. A ban on political activity was lifted for 34,791 Peronistas. Another 6,500 got the right to resume labor union activities-just in time for an all-out fight for control of the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.). A new government interventor for the C.G.T. was appointed last week by Frondizi and instructed to hold free elections within 90 days. Peronista-dominated unions were favored to win a close race for control of the huge (3,000,000 members) organization...
Only the most ardent admirer of the Dunces, for example, will be eager to add to his record library a song whose punch line...
...Gaulle's return. Paradoxically, even some of the noisiest proponents of a tough line in Algeria, such as Jacques Soustelle, believe that a France revitalized by De Gaulle could give Algeria some form of self-government inside a North African Federation related to France. "The strong." argues one ardent Gaullist, "can afford to be generous...
...Government had not the faintest intention of giving Lebanon such sums-but still hadn't the Lebanese government, onetime ardent supporter of the Eisenhower Doctrine, now proved to all and sundry how independent of Washington it really...