Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio in London, in soldierly language exhorted the Free French to push on, urged the troops in Weygand's command to pitch in with them. "It is Brosset, a Saharan of Algiers, of Morocco, of Mauritania and the Sudan, who is asking you if you remember that ardor and devotion whose tradition once existed in the oases, in rocks, in mountains and in the desert. . . . Are you still worthy . . . Meharistes, who were my own young men? . . . Remember that Lawrence was at Damascus before the regular troops; Tripoli is waiting for you. Saddle up your camels and ride like...
...whole problem of war orders in 1940, most U. S. manufacturers reacted patriotically but with caution. The Nye Committee was too fresh in their memo ries to give them any stomach for the munitions-makers role. The result was an apparent lack of ardor in the way industry went after war business. But with that coolheaded attitude, coolheaded William S. Knudsen was equipped to deal...
...Philippines and free themselves of their pledge to her. If the American people would only do a little reminiscing: in 1898 or thereabouts, in the White House, there was one soul who could not sleep for nights. The democracy-loving, civilization-exponent President McKinley was praying in pulsating ardor to his God to guide him in making a decision on what to do with a handful of verdant islands inhabited by 8,000,000 liberty-loving civilization-absorbent ethnological group. . . . [He] intimated American dishonorableness in returning the Islands to Spain, and cruelty in setting her free in a precarious international...
...beauty that has not a foundation in use, soon grows distasteful, and needs continual replacement with something else." This maxim would sound serviceable to most modern designers of functional furniture. It was devised by devout, unlettered members of the communistic religious sect who called themselves Shakers. Kindled by the ardor of Ann Lee, a mystic Englishwoman who led a band of six men and two women to the U. S. in 1774, the Shakers took as their motto "Hands to work and hearts to God." They labored, shook away their sins, grew and flourished mainly in colonies in eastern...
...find their voice only to shout "We want Willkie!" And ever since 1932, hostility to Roosevelt has been a potent U. S. political force-but it had not sent plain citizens out buttonholing their fellows, swallowing their self-consciousness, selling buttons naming their candidate, circulating petitions with an embarrassed ardor...