Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan to unify Britain's nine Malay States and the Straits Settlements (excluding Singapore) into a single Malay federation was worked out long ago, "in the Coalition days. An ardent Tory, Sir Harold MacMichael, went out to Malaya last October to explain the plan to the nine Sultans. The Sultans themselves promptly consented to sign away all their sovereign powers (except their religious authority). Then they got to thinking it over...
...pays him $25,000 a year, but it does not ask him to support any policy with which he disagrees. An ardent Roosevelt follower, in 1936 he declined to draw cartoons for pro-Landon editorials. In the final weeks of the campaign, the only Fitz cartoons the P-D carried were innocuous drawings of elephants and donkeys competing. On occasion Fitz has also refused to draw to order for Collier's, for which he has worked on the side since 1925. He turned down one Collier's request-for a cartoon to illustrate an article by Willkie-solely...
...Course of True Love. Lest the hungry French succumb too readily to the ardent Russians, U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffrey made an opportune announcement: "During the nine months from July 1, 1945 to April 1, 1946, shipments of bread grains from the U.S. to France and French North Africa totaled 1,894,250 metric tons...
...brought Page Two writers out of their shells. A generally neutral attitude toward the European conflagration during the first half of 1915 evolved into an ardent "preparedness" stand when the next board took office. Pro-Allied feeling grew in a crescendo up to the eve of United States involvement when the Crimson refused to print any more "Communications" from pacifists...
...their drive for control of labor unions, they rely on five basic types of workers: 1) the Party member (secret or avowed); 2) the fellow traveler (not a CP member but an ardent follower); 3) the sympathizer (in essential agreement with the Communist line); 4) the opportunist (who makes alliance with the militant CPers); 5) the liberal (fundamentally in disagreement but approving immediate demands...