Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iron Curtain is a scrupulous and restrained movie, as well as a persuasive and exciting one. Under William Wellman's taut direction, it catches something of the soul-freezing discipline and mutual mistrust which must be the normal climate for totalitarian operations; something, too, of the way ardent amateurs in "front" groups are exploited. And near the end, when Gouzenko is trying hopelessly to find a Canadian who will listen to his story while the pursuers close in, the suspense is really awful...
...national chairman of the Independent Republicans for Roosevelt. He recently quit the Progressive Citizens of America when it went for Wallace. His service on the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine turned him into an author (Behind the Silken Curtain); he is now an ardent advocate of partition. In moving to Manhattan, he will give up, among other things, the presidency of two radio stations owned by Ted and Dorothy Thackrey, owners of the New York Post...
...father was looked on as something of an eccentric by the neighbors. He built an eight-sided house for his family, on the theory that it would be proof against wind storms, scribbled a new system of logic which Gallup still hopes to edit some day. He was an ardent Bryan man. As a joke, people started calling George "Ted," after Teddy Roosevelt, a nickname that has stuck ever since...
Sidney Webb was shy and 31, Beatrice Potter* ardent and 32, when Cupid realized that they were made for each other. Courtship began at the Glasgow Co-operative Congress of 1890, where Sidney hewed one of Beatrice's political articles to pieces and rewrote it. In 1891, thrown into each other's arms at the Lincoln Cooperative Congress, they secretly plighted their troth. A year later they were off on their honeymoon-an impassioned examination of Dublin labor problems, rounded off with a joint appearance at the Glasgow Trades Union Congress...
...predatory decadence of the New World is forgotten in the leafy byways of the Old Country; here, quotations are culled only from the sunny hedgerows of George Meredith, Shakespeare, The Wind in the Willows. World War II-the one which was caused by all the irresponsible behavior described by ardent Father Haydn-is over at last, and Britons are exhausted...