Word: ardente
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...heads seem carefully coifed. Fuseli was ordained a minister in his youth, and in 1764 went to England and took up art. Eventually he got a job as a professor at the Royal Academy, settled down to a quiet life painting, writing, and raising moths (he was an ardent amateur entomologist...
...number of times Senator Bricker has invoked the Constitution as the sacred vessel of all that is praise-worthy in America is past counting. His proposed amendment, thus, seems somewhat anamalous. Despite our feeling that cant has dominated his incantations, it is still surprising that so ardent a defender of the Constitution should want to alter that document as drastically as he does...
Glowed Daladier: "A new and stronger Poland is rising from the ruins . . . Everywhere, we witnessed an ardent, admirable patriotism, and also moving demonstrations of warm friendship for France. If war doesn't come before, Poland in ten years will be a great nation . . . She profoundly wants peace. But there is no doubt that if the Germans cross the Oder, there will...
...Keppel's first assignments was to convince two old friends, both distinguished educators, to accept the deanship of the Education School. Both refused, but by that time Keppel had grown so ardent in convincing them that he could find no excuse to back out himself when Buck offered him the job. Only 32 at the time, he was about to assume one of the most important posts in American education. And he was scared...
...Belgium too. EDC was debated last week. Socialist Paul-Henri Spaak, one of Europe's most ardent champions of unity, threw all his oratory into the argument. "Could we ask young Belgians to defend Europe on the Elbe." he asked, "while the Germans stayed home?" The chamber was half empty during the debate, for Belgium has apparently already made up its mind: to ratify...