Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Humphrey has strong support among labor leaders and blacks. I.W. Abel of the United Steelworkers of America, Floyd Smith of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, and Lane Kirkland, reputed to be George Meany's likely successor as head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., are all ardent Humphrey...
...diplomat, he served in many capitals before his final assignment as Ambassador to Britain (1957-62). An ardent democrat, he took advantage of his special status as Greece's only Nobel prizewinner to criticize the present Greek military regime publicly...
Died. John Desmond Bernal, 70, physicist-philosopher and ardent Communist; of a stroke: in London. Called the "Sage" by fellow British scientists because of his encyclopedic knowledge, Bernal infuriated them with one of his favorite theories: "In capitalist countries, the direction of science is in the hands of those who hate peace." Nonetheless, they recognized the greatness of Bernal's own contributions to science, including experiments with crystals in the 1920s and '30s that helped lay the groundwork for molecular biology. When Sir John Anderson, Home Secretary at the outbreak of World War II, was criticized for hiring...
...Thieu had no opponents at the top, however, he did not lack for opposition, as last week's elections to the Lower House of South Viet Nam's National Assembly abundantly demonstrated. The Assembly has been corrupt-a vote cost $ 180 and ardent support of a bill brought up to $1,800-and virtually powerless, and so many candidates ran this time that the election was a cross between a popularity contest and a lottery. But the voting did reveal Thieu's growing unpopularity. Thieu had hoped to win a solid two-thirds majority...
...truth of a family is like the truth of an ocean, a series of movements in which themes occur and recur," the author writes. It seems particularly true of adolescence. Urie informs Zeb, an ardent believer, that there is no God, that Socrates was a better man than Jesus. When the young man recovers, they go on to other intellectual topics-something called "the Cult of Ugliness," then the "sexual power of puberty," and finally, of course, Krafft-Ebing. But their first kiss leads only to a more metaphysical discussion. Clearly such cerebral lovers have no future. For sex Urie...