Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonders also whatever happened to the left's ardent support for democracy. In the Florida presidential primary in March 1972, 74 per cent voted against busing in a referendum included on the ballot. This matches what the public opinion polls have been saying for years. It is clear that the people do not support forced busing. What is becoming more clear is that the people have no control over the state...
...business because they were not automated enough to handle swelling trading volume. There followed destructive "back office" paper jams, missing stock certificates and theft. In recent weeks, firms have easily shouldered daily trading volume that would have smothered many of them a few years ago. Even so ardent a foe of negotiated commissions as James J. Needham, chief of the New York Stock Exchange, concedes that brokers are ready for Mayday. Says he: "They're about as trim as they could...
What ensues is not outrage, vituperation or divorce, but smug Shavian homilies on the double standard and the right of women to economic self-determination. Incontestable Constance takes a job as an interior decorator and decamps for a six-week fling with an ardent old beau...
...Handel's Julius Caesar, and afterward turned down all the contracts Bing gingerly offered. No other singer has been able to do this; it is her legend, and she's proud of it. It became a David-and-Goliath myth which her fans loved and continually embellished, the most ardent even supposing that she refused contracts solely out of righteous indignation for not having been appreciated earlier. Recently she's become pretty candid about what was actually in those contracts: insultingly poor roles, old productions, or performance dates that Bing knew conflicted with her commitments to sing elsewhere...
...good as Henry Kissinger's," boasts Champagne Music Maker Lawrence Welk, and his sense of harmony may even be better. Still, the king of schmalz announced last week that he would not run for President in 1976. Welk disqualified himself after 5,000 followers, led by an ardent Santa Barbara, Calif, fan, had written to suggest his candidacy. "Politics, like music and golf, is best learned at an early age," said Welk. "Having reached the age of 72, I'm afraid it is a little late to change horses in the middle of a stream beset with such...