Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shift. The President's bold seizure stopped a strike, but did not solve the unrest of the railworkers. Fifteen of the rail unions that gave in (TIME, Jan. 3) were still as angry as the three that held out. Aggressive George M. Harrison of the Railway Clerks, an ardent Rooseveltian for ten years, was not muttering about revenge at the polls. The 15 non-operating unions (with 1,100,000 members) issued a joint blast at their treatment...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, ardent student of Wilson's peacemaking mistakes, has often told friends that he is resolved not to repeat them...
Virtue without Mortgages. Santayana's maternal grandfather José Borras, who "became a Deist, an ardent disciple of Rousseau, and I suspect a Freemason," fled Spain in 1823, settled in Glasgow, and moved to "rural, republican, distinguished, Jeffersonian Virginia. Here, if anywhere, mankind had turned over a new leaf, and in a clean new world, free from all absurd traditions and tyrant mortgages, was beginning to lead a pure life of reason and virtue." In 1835 Grandfather was back in Spain, U.S. consul at Barcelona, appointed by Andrew Jackson at a low point in U.S.-Spanish relations...
...Senate Foreign Affairs Committee recently heard an outline of Ludwig's carefully worked out plan for dealing with a defeated Germany. The plan has aroused much interest because of the author's intimate knowledge of his country. Ludwig, an ardent foe of nationalism, has been helping the United States in the propaganda war ayainst the Nazis...
...Wendell Willkie's One World: "The secret of its immense success is that the reader at once finds that here is a world reporter who has an open mind, complete intellectual integrity, and an ardent desire to help along every part of the world in which he finds himself...