Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...precariousness of merely human happiness. . . . While the religious wars lasted, France had to endure all the horrors of massacre and depredation, of plague and famine, of lawlessness and political anarchy. ... It was in these years . . . that François Leclerc became ... a firm believer in absolute monarchy and an ardent nationalist...
...moment threatening his new republic, but there was plenty of dissatisfaction at home. For five years moonfaced, religious Mohammed el Hassani had haunted Paris, trying to be appointed Governor of Syria. His bowing and scraping to the French did not make him popular, particularly with Syria's ardent nationalists. Syrians last week looked for plenty of squalls as he tried to set up his Government...
...knew Mr. Eccles was surprised at his warning. Himself the No. 1 spend-in-depression, save-in-boom exponent, he has lately also been an ardent supporter of Leon Henderson's efforts to stop inflation by saving the consumer from himself. To Henderson, the 18-month limit on time sales of consumers' durable goods looks generous. Henderson had already persuaded Eccles to include furniture in his list of controlled goods. Now he pushed him into threatening still sharper restrictions...
Last week it was tired and eager to appease. Not even the most ardent BMIte had expected radio to win so decisively...
...Russian radio had a good opportunity to plug in Comrade Stalin's newest party line. It devoted an hour to an English-language program, the theme of which was: "The people of the Soviet Union, now fighting a great patriotic war in defense of their country . . . extend their ardent greetings to the American people on the occasion of their glorious national holiday. ... It is altogether fitting on this occasion for the American and Russian people to clasp hands more firmly...