Word: ardently
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...leaked the letter? Early speculation centered on Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy and the Administration's most ardent critic of arms control. Perle flatly denied that he was the source of the leak. Defense Department officials pointed out that the leaked letter bore Weinberger's nickname signature "Cap," while the copies distributed to Perle and others in the Pentagon were unsigned: the implication was that it was leaked after receipt elsewhere in the Government. A fine point, perhaps, but by week's end Washington insiders were convinced that other players had more motive for mischief...
Squeezed into eight relatively succinct hours, Arthur Hopcraft's adaptation tidies up the sprawling novel a bit. One regrets the loss of a few of Dickens' colorful minor characters, along with much of his humor. (Where, for instance, is Mrs. Jellyby, that ardent philanthropist who ignores her sorry children while campaigning to help the natives of Borrioboola-Gha?) Bleak House was, perhaps, not meant to be quite as bleak as this...
...staff of General Douglas MacArthur, for whom he coined the rallying cry "I shall return" that followed MacArthur's retreat from the Japanese-besieged Philippines in 1942. In 1945 Romulo persuaded the framers of the U.N. charter to endorse independence for colonized countries, and he became an ardent advocate for Third World concerns...
...busy, triumphant night for Harold Ezell. Outfitted in a blue blazer and striped tie, the Government's most ardent alien chaser jumped into a helicopter and rode along as it sent a piercing searchlight across the hills and arroyos south of San Diego. Then he scrambled into a pickup truck and peered through a nightscope to watch his agents tear through the chaparral in Dodge Ram Charger "war wagons" to overtake groups of Mexicans trying to sneak into the U.S. Later, he proudly counted the day's total arrests: 2,643 illegal immigrants. Nudging a companion, Ezell declared...
...Governor. A former FBI agent, the soft-spoken and methodical Lucas was a Democrat when elected sheriff and then executive of Wayne County, which includes Detroit. He drew praise and criticism alike for cutting the county debt by laying off workers and selling a financially hemorrhaging public hospital. An ardent supporter of Ronald Reagan's, he switched parties 17 months ago, calling the G.O.P. the true party of opportunity...