Word: ardor
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Archibald's attentions are now focused solely on the newest arrivals to Baraboo, and if anybody can ignite their ardor, he can. As a kind of Don Juan of the Audubon set, he won fame in 1978 for tempting a female whooping crane to ovulate by imitating the elaborate courtship dances of the male. His installation has housed representatives of all 15 species of crane and has successfully overseen the hatching of rare chicks since...
...Barcelona but were crushed after a desperate struggle. The government blamed the Trotskyites leaders and dupes who engaged in "conscious lying, conscious provocation conscious support for Fascism." The Comintern engineered a switch in leadership, from the revolutionary socialist Largo Caballero to the moderate Negrin According to Carr. "The revolutionary ardor so easily whipped up in the summer and autumn of 1936 to fire the struggle against Fascism, had given place to the cool calculations of diplomacy: Spain was a pawn on the Eruopean chess board...
...sacramental wino but still relentlessly endearing, dodging attacks and responsibilities with an easy quip. Somewhere beneath the show-biz charm, though, compassion pulses. When an angry young seminarian (Zeljko Ivanek) antagonizes his rector (Charles Burning), Father Farley resolves to detoxify the lad's ardor, teach him a few punch lines, figure out where God fits into all this...
...Those qualities of the spirit that Reagan so relentlessly thunders from the White House are what free and self-governing societies run on. It may yet be written in the history books that the genius of the Reagan years was to slow up the Federal Government, shrink the missionary ardor of the presidency and pep-talk America into doing a lot more for itself...
Some of the public's ardor may be only curiosity about a historic ticket; many in the Austin audience drifted away after Ferraro finished speaking, before Mondale was done. Mississippi House Speaker C.B. ("Buddie") Newman greeted his party's candidates in Jackson, but refused to say how he would vote in November. Yet last week's jaunt seemed to confirm that even in the South, Ferraro is likely to be a strong asset. Said Lloyd Doggett, who is the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas: "If she can win in Archie Bunker's district...