Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party politics aside, the President had at least three good reasons for giving the Little Flower a hand: 1) the Mayor had risked his own political neck to back Franklin Roosevelt for a third term; 2) LaGuardia is one of the most ardent supporters of the President's foreign policy; 3) the President really thinks that Fiorello LaGuardia is the best mayor New York City ever...
...Foot in Heaven (Warner). They have just put the "old preacher" on the morning local when the Rev. William Spence (Fredric March) and his pretty bride (Martha Scott) arrive to take over their first parish. To the ardent young pastor, brimful of Methodism, the whistle-stop town of Laketon, Iowa (circa 1904) looks ripe for good works. To his comfortably nurtured, loving wife, its rutted streets, clapboard buildings, grass-roots manners seem as meager as her husband's yearly salary...
Yale. Last year's arch-isolationist News is still isolationist under holdover Chairman William Ford (who succeeded Kingman Brewster). But next January the News will switch; its next chairman will be Sterling Tomkins Jr., ardent interventionist...
...Lecture Hall, and set off at carefully-planned intervals during the hour? But even should these achievements be equalled, Vag reflected with mixed pleasure and regret, no one but the taskmaster-emeritus of History 1 could inspire, and graciously accept, the gift of a highly-polished apple which one ardent admirer had brought up to the rostrum at the climax of a lecture on the feudal system...
...became an ardent imperialist, wrote "an epoch-making memorandum on colonization and sea power." As anonymous as the Nazi emissaries of the pre-war days, von Ribbentrop or Otto Abetz, Father Joseph wandered about Europe, apparently a poor itinerant, actually the center of a power government, whose designs on its neighbors he furthered through countless contacts and intrigues...