Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Were all the outstanding ardent anti-Nazis of Germany liquidated? Is anything left of the German Socialist Party (once biggest in the world) or the German Communist Party (biggest outside Russia...
William ("Billy") Lendrum Mitchell, whose ardent advocacy of U.S. air power led to his court-martial for "insubordination" in 1926 and demotion from brigadier general to colonel, was posthumously voted (by the U.S. Senate) the Congressional Medal of Honor, promotion to the rank of major general...
...resemblance between Patton the ardent athlete, the nimble fencer, the expert horseman and Patton the hard-cussing, harddriving, hard-working maker of war is also more than coincidental. Patton the Man and Patton the General are inextricably the same...
Main reason the ardent purists have not been more successful is that congregations like to sing. Listening to Palestrina, however purely performed, is not the same thing at all. Many a churchgoer has come to feel that the service is already less for the congregation than for the choir, and he resents any fresh attempts to turn his place of worship into what is beginning to look like a mere concert hall...
Best known pro-Russian was aging (74), independent Premier Juho Paasikivi, who said in a pre-election speech: "Our policy must never again be directed against the Soviet Union." Moscow's most ardent advocate was thirtyish, fiery-eyed Hertta Kuusinen, daughter of oldtime Comintern functionary, now high Soviet official Otto Kuusinen (who stayed in Russia). Hertta Kuusinen's instrument was that familiar Communist device, a Democratic Front-composed in Finland of Communists, small farmers and a splinter of the old Social Democratic Party, once the country's biggest. Chief anti-Russian was tough...