Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnny-come-lately to show business, Broadway's limber-faced Danny Kaye was nevertheless an X quantity as a disembodied voice. An album of records by him had been a sellout, but even his most ardent fans thought of him as a wild-eyed, sharp-nosed, mile-a-minute mugger who tore himself apart with frantic pantomime. Last week he proved he could be funny in the dark...
...drives will miss their quotas: the U.S. is the world's most ardent brother-keeper. Every year U.S. citizens give away some $2,000,000,000. But they do not do it offhandedly. They have to be scouted, charted and carefully flattered. And they prefer to believe that all giving, however large or complicated, is as spontaneous as a dime for coffee...
...loudest, most pained outbursts came from the President's own most ardent supporters. Those who had campaigned vigorously for Term IV on the basis of Roosevelt's foreign policy were suddenly ready to concede his fallibility. Cried the New Dealing New York Post's Edgar Ansel Mowrer: "Mr. Roosevelt's expediencies and compromises, his postponements of questions and evasions of issues are coming home to plague him from a dozen places-Britain, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, etc. Yet still unrepentantly he wisecracks, he postures, he ducks, he does everything but come clean and tell...
...Secret. As the telephone began to ring at Papago Park, the camp's tall, grey-haired commander, Colonel William A. Holden, knew for the first time that 25 prisoners, all ardent Nazis, had escaped under his nose. Guards soon discovered camouflaged holes in the fence. Then, two days after the break, they discovered a tunnel which opened in an outdoor coal shed, led 200 feet to the bank of a deep irrigation canal...
Last week the magazine Country Book reported that kudzu may revolutionize southern farming. Already the kudzu cult has a radio program (on Atlanta's WAGA) and an organization of more than 1,000 ardent growers, the Kudzu Club of America, Inc. Chief kudzu-cultists are two well-known Georgia gentleman farmers, Channing Cope, a onetime utility man, and Cason Callaway, retired textile manufacturer...