Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marianne DeKoven (Romelio's sister) didn't burn her bridges and she should have. She played her love scene with little ardor because she knew she'd wind up at the end with a different partner. Her hesitancy only spoils the scene. It didn't make her marriage seem reasonable. James Shuman (Contarino) played the scene with more ardor...
...mere triumph of ideological principles but demands direct subservience to the policies of the block as conceived (sic) in Moscow." In this doctrine Communism has no indigenous roots of any importance. It is not a reaction to local injustice or incompetence. It can never be an expression of national ardor. It is always imposed from without. It demands a military response. Our plunge into Vietnam, let me repeat, as originally conceived was to arrest a probe of this Moscow-directed conspiracy...
...whether North Vietnam has its primary association with Moscow or China much less with what factions in China. And there is agreement by all except the custodians of the official truth in Washington that the National Liberation Front in South Vietnam has strong indigenous roots that tap both national ardor and ancient injustice. Never in modern times has history played such a disastrous trick on doctrine...
...industrial states. Beset by an $83 million budget deficit, a dearth of new business, and a 25% drop in employment during the previous six years, Ohio set out to do something about its sluggish economy. Since then, no other state has wooed industry with quite as much ardor-or success. Last year Ohio lured an estimated $2.1 billion in new industrial investment, the best such performance ever by any state...
Among the fighting men, there is a good deal of the Peace Corps ardor that animates their peers back home...