Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perplexed bookies kept the odds at about the previous week's figure: 7-to-5 on Roosevelt. The New York World-Telegram figured that ardent voters had backed their favorites with some...
...Green must have changed since some ardent Indian wrote the famous drinking song to the effect that "Dartmouth's in town again so run, girls, run," according to the Statler staff. "We've never had any trouble of that sort, either," Scanlon stated proudly "The boys and girls just have a little...
...Deal" and the "Willkie Crusade" each sent two ardent representatives to Wellesley yesterday afternoon to convince the denizens of Pine Manor to vote the right way in a debate sponsored by the gals' International Relations Club...
...more violent theories of socialism were already supplanting these gentle persuaders whom Karl Marx contemptuously dubbed "the Utopians." P.J. Proudhon, self-taught son of a barrelmaker, declared: "Property is theft." Burly, bearded Russian Michael Bakunin was transmuting his biologic impotence into an ardent anarchism-of-the-deed that longed to send the whole world up in smoke. "The desire to destroy," wrote Bakunin, "is also a creative desire." Finding some peasants milling around a German castle one day, he hopped out of his carriage, filled them so quickly with creative desire that when he took his seat again, the castle...
...good many members of American university faculties who are sincerely opposed to the policies of our government with respect to foreign relations and national preparedness. There are some who believe that the totalitarian countries will leave us alone if we leave them alone. There are others who are ardent pacifists and object to the use of force even for the purpose of defending civilization against barbarism. We of the Harvard Group are convinced that these men are grievously mistaken in thinking that the freedom which they and we cherish can be preserved except by strengthening our own armed forces...