Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ardent follower of progressive Governor Ellis Arnall, Mrs. Mankin was supported by the local Political Action Committee. On election night, she was running behind until the ballot box from Atlanta's Ward 3, Precinct B, was opened. The precinct, where all but ten registered voters are Negroes, was supervised by Negro poll officials, for the first time in Atlanta's history. In the box were 956 votes for Mrs. Mankin, 35 for her opponents. Mrs. Mankin won by 770 votes...
...fraternity brother in Delta Kappa Epsilon), who is retiring July 1, soon after Amherst's 125th birthday party. As an old grad returning home, Charles Cole well knows the history of Amherst's elm-grown, hilltop campus, which had its start when a group of ardent Puritans from Williams College struck out for themselves, determined to "educate indigent young men of hopeful piety...
Repentant Revolutionist. For the utterance of truth Wordsworth had a surprisingly modern experience. As a young man, he was an ardent revolutionist. The French Revolution was for him what the Russian Revolution was for a later generation. Unlike many later enthusiasts, Wordsworth was not content to applaud from the sidelines. He went to France and took a small post in the revolutionary government. In time he decided that revolutions can reform practically anything except man. So he became a philosophic conservative of the most unrepentant kind -the repentant revolutionist. For some. 50 years he sounded the emotional overtones of this...
Neither leader could make a move without an eye on the country's ardent, revolunonary, well-organized youth movement. Insisting on an end of colonialism. Indonesia's youth fought the Europeans, spread the slogans of a new order. If Premier Sjahrir agreed to Dutch terms, the youth movement, led by demagogic President Soekarno, might well repudiate...
While Hindus and Moslems were snarling at each other, Jawaharlal Nehru, ardent champion of Indian independence, summed up for them and for the world India's New Year's mood: "[We] will not willingly submit to any empire or any domination, and will revolt against it. It will be a continuing revolt of millions, with a passion behind it which even the atomic bomb will not suppress...