Word: ardente
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...quickly rose to the rank of captain and won the D.S.O. for his heroism in battle. But he returned from the trenches horrified by the senseless slaughter he had witnessed, and resolved never again to aid a war effort. The casual thoughts of pre-war days crystallized into an ardent pacifism...
...farfetched and improbable as to be beyond the reach of criticism . . . What strikes me is the omission, in his article, of the name of Tito, the avowed atheist and persecutor of the Christian Church, while it includes the name of Catholic Franco. When one recalls Britain's ardent wooing of Tito, the omission may seem to be less than accidental...
Another obstacle was the notion that private enterprise is eager to develop nuclear power plants. AEC spent precious years exploring this possibility. Said Murray, an ardent free-enterprise man: "The answer that we derived after several years of probing this problem, with the help of competent, interested industrialists, was negative." Many companies wanted to get into the game, but they all demanded in one way or another that the Government pay the bill...
...fondness for cocaine as a sort of hobby. But when cases of cocaine poisoning and addiction began to pour in, Freud's hobby made him the center of a scandal. His colleagues were further scandalized when, under the influence of France's Charcot, Freud became an ardent supporter of hypnotism...
Less than two weeks before the Warren appointment was announced, Brownell had a list of six final prospects. Then Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Jackson was dropped from the list because, among other things, he had been a left-of-center Democrat and an ardent supporter of Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court packing plan. Associate Justice Harold Burton, the only Republican on the court but not its senior member, was eliminated because jumping him over the others might have started a new round of bickering among the Justices. Federal Circuit Judges Orie L. Phillips of Colorado and John...