Word: ardente
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...pull his retreating forces together again, Truman fired him for insisting that the Korean war could (and should) be fought on to victory. History may decide that MacArthur was right. Authors Willoughby and Chamberlain have produced no new documents or arguments to forward his case. But this well-phrased, ardent book can be taken as a medium-sized monument to a monumental personality...
...Ardent Desire. In Red China last week, the Laborites also visited three Russian-equipped iron and steel mills at Anshan and a coal mine at Tangshan, Manchuria. The young mine director told the Laborites that production was much higher than before the war because the workers were now the enthusiastic owners of the plant. Further research, however, disclosed that 1) the mine had been confiscated from a British company, and the Laborites were now inspecting stolen property; 2) the British had had almost as high a production rate as the Communists now claim. Nye Bevan went down the mine...
...just this Anglo-Stoic reticence which makes Ned's letters read more like those of an ardent, puttering professor than an inspired leader of men. Hundreds of his early letters contain nothing more exciting than the measurements, in feet and inches, of innumerable loopholes, embrasures and arches, plus detailed information about the price of milk and bread and the state of his bicycle ("34 punctures to date ... in 1,400 miles"). If Ned's letters were the only clue to his identity, readers would think that all he did in World War I was collect stamps...
Forty thousand ardent Fascists gathered in Rome to hail the new head, stomped by his palace window looking upwards eagerly. But a lady visitor had come to see Mussolini, and the head was in no position to review his followers...
...hoped, he wrote, to "suppress all monks indiscriminately" and use religion chiefly as a means of teaching docility to growing girls ("There is nothing I dislike so much as a meddlesome woman"). But he readily became "Your Holiness' devoted son" when he needed papal aid-and an ardent Moslem when he invaded Egypt ("There is no other god but God, and Mahomet is his prophet!"). French Jews, he ordered, must be convinced that with his help they would find the "New Jerusalem" in France-despite his convictions, expressed in another letter, that they were "the most despicable race...