Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elbows in hospital work was Louise Macy Hopkins, Harry's smart and pretty bride, who took an evening out to recruit nurses' aids for the Red Cross with Recruit Joan Fontaine. Columned Eleanor Roosevelt enthusiastically: "[She] is such an ardent nurse's aid worker . . . that she has more than 300 hours to her credit already and can do certain types of work which newcomers are not permitted to undertake." At Columbia Hospital in Washington, Nurse's Aid Louise Hopkins, from 9 to 4: makes beds, takes temperatures, feeds helpless patients, carries bedpans, fills water bottles...
...mind. Dixon might have been specially trained for this job. He made an all-important sea anchor out of a life jacket, paddles out of his own shoes. He treated Gene's finger expertly when a shark ripped it from end to end. A superstitious man and an "ardent" spiritualist, Dixon was ready to participate in Gene's daily prayers "because it worked a couple of times . . . and later because it gave us something regular to do." When Tony, who had heard only Polish religious services, begged to hear Bible stories in English, Dixon rationed them, giving...
...uncontested by-election last week Stoker Edwards, former dockers' union leader and ardent piano thumper, won his seat. Next day he returned to active duty .at sea. Cracked his constituents: "01' Walt'll build some fires under them White hall toffs...
...Nashville, Tenn., an ardent prohibitionist wrote a letter of protest to his local editors last week, denouncing tires made out of alcoholic rubber...
...death can tear out of my heart the passionate belief that one day I shall hear that voice say to me, 'My mate. The one I so much want. Bride, wife, indissoluble, eternal.' ... O come, come, my darling, look into these eyes and see the long ardent aspiring soul in them...