Word: ardors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year, to produce 20% of next year's silk. Most successful love match has been between a male moth called "Tranquillity" and a female called "Long Security." After three to five hours of blissful embrace last week, Long Security produced 500-600 eggs. Her partner's ardor was then cooled by a night in a refrigeration room. Refreshed, he was introduced next day to a new Long Security, curled up for the morning's work. He was then carried happily off to be ground up for oil. The offspring of this union is a formidable tyke...
...ousted Secretary of Commerce at arm's length. And even Wallace's words were strained through a screen: "It seems to me very definitely that our foreign policy has changed for the better." And his call to arms was not of a kind to arouse much ardor: "I know there are places where the Democratic candidates are not the ones to be proud of. I ask you to consider what is your choice...
...pursuit of beauty, the attainment by "great souls" of the maximum "passional love," still seemed to him "the wonder of civilization." His own ardor was overshadowed by his egotism, his thirst for glory and prestige under the Emperor. "I looked superb," he noted one day during this glittering period, "my hair done in thick black curls, my face fine; cravat, jabot, two vests-superb; breeches of cashmere . . . noble and assured carriage...
Rizal was executed for his ardor in 1896-a Spanish act that fixed Rizal, and freedom, forever in the Filipino mind. The same year, Spain was chastising others of its colonists-the Cubans. In the U.S., Manifest Destiny, indignant over the spectacle of Spanish soldiers hunting defenseless, freedom-loving Cubans in the hills, glowered and tugged. In Congress and in the torch-lighted squares, war fever mounted...
...body is solid and strong, his blue eyes clear. As vice president of France, he sits in the fussy luxury of the Hotel Matignon, which Austro-Hungarian ambassadors occupied before 1914. The Gobelin tapestries on the walls neither fit nor affect his revolutionary ardor. He doesn't even know the name of the Roman Emperor whose bust faces him. When Thorez laughs (he is one of the few Marxists who laugh), his bellow shakes the air, and the imperial chandelier tinkles...