Word: ardors
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...Food program. And during those first two sitting weeks, when the P.M. had heard enough, arms and body would spring up - "Mr. Speaker!" - as he spat taunts across the chamber - "Mr. Speaker!" - hand thumping the dispatch box in a climax of ardor...
...Green has been looming a little less large and verdant of late, limping into town unranked, that has no effect on the potency of the match-up. Expect the two Ivy foes to bring out the best in each other and play with an intensity not betraying the ardor of the winter campaign. To play like it’s a one-game season. And the end of the six-game season. In the middle of the season.—Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...
...Many Chinese are skeptical of President Bush, who will spend three days in China as part of his Asian tour, but that has hardly cooled their ardor for the Governator-few here know that the two are from the same political party or that Arnie mentioned the Tiananmen massacre in his GOP Convention speech last year. "If I lived in California, I'd vote for him," says Liu Tianyu, a project manager for a multinational firm in Shanghai. "I don't know much about his politics, but he has a very charming attitude...
...Henrik's much-loved wife Anna. Henrik, a failed musician, has transferred his ambition to Karin, a promising cellist. When Anna was alive, Henrik was lost in love with Anna; and, Karin says, "I was a little shut out of that love." Now Karin is all he has. His ardor, as two startling moments indicate, is at least emotionally incestuous. One scene begins with Henrik in bed with his daughter; another includes a kiss that begins as tearful love and briefly surrenders to Henrik's passion...
...such liberalization, Deng coined the line that has become his thumbnail credo: "It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice." He also began suggesting that an individual's value in modernizing China lay less in his "redness," or Communist ardor, than in his "expertness," or technical skills. Though his own formal schooling ended early, Deng has repeatedly stressed that his vision for building a new China was bound inextricably to education and research...