Word: ardente
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...student elements, particularly union workers. These are the people who feel most acutely the economic presence of the Negro. They are also the people who can compensate for more through the feelings of superiority which the Negro's subservient position permits them. Adept at strike tactics, these ardent white supremacists were more than a match for police, and of course, the University had no control over them whatsoever...
Despite pressure from all sorts of extremist groups on the University, the Lucy incident has not directly involved academic freedom. Several professors are known to be ardent integrationists and to disagree heartily with the University's expulsion of Miss Lucy. None of these men have been subject to any reprisal, however, and most of them feel that the University has protected its faculty well...
...Gide. The demon that possessed Jacques and his girl came from drinking deeply of the heady, dark brews of French intellectualism, from the Marquis de Sade to Jean Paul Sartre. Denise was the ardent disciple of them all, a girl so enamored of the intellectual life and so prone to bedding with students that she soon found herself the mother of a bastard child. Her lover Jacques had already fathered two bastards by the time they met, and his approach to women was always patterned on that of his intellectual idols. "In the manner of Gide," he would tell...
...Church pleased almost no one. The proclerical wing of Argentine opinion, which threw its considerable weight against Perón only after he had imprudently attacked the church, felt defrauded: Aramburu did not restore the church's prerogatives, such as religious education in public schools. So heated have ardent Roman Catholics become that one priest recently cried: "Never has there been such a rift between the church and the government...
...first words were wieldy enough, at least to Melody: conductor, scientist, julep. Almost as fast as Pronouncer Benson S. Alleman rolled them off his 670-word list, they were shot back, letter-perfect, in Southern drawls, crisp New England accents or Midwestern twangs. Then one boy spelled ardent with an a, and a 14-year-old girl had the same trouble with lavender, ending with ar. Another victim spelled conscientious with a c instead of t. Clyde W. Dawson, 13, of New Mexico, tacked an se to the end of incandescence, and in a real gone voice groaned...