Word: ardors
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...series works. For Adams' rise to large status in our political history is paralleled by a shrewd depiction of his personal progress from a bachelorhood feverish with suppressed sexuality to a courtship of Abigail (appealingly played by Kathryn Walker) that is near-comic in its ardor...
...week's end the violence in Beirut had tapered off to occasional skirmishing and sniping. It was heavy rains, however, rather than a spirit of conciliation that had dampened the fighting ardor of gunmen, who roamed the streets carrying an umbrella in one hand and a rifle in the other. The lull coincided with end-of-the-month anticipation of paychecks, a time when many street fighters have a personal interest in maintaining at least enough order for banks to reopen...
...rich, the royal and the celebrated attended the extravagant grand opening in 1969. "No country club in the world is so deliberately elite, so tastefully plush," bubbled Town & Country magazine in its February 1971 issue. But the initial fee of $8,000 and annual dues of $360 dampened the ardor of many prospective applicants; only 700 signed up. Nonetheless, Post would not abandon his ideal of exclusivity. In 1970, even nonmember Lyndon Johnson was forced to wait at the gate until he was cleared to play golf...
...Then he is apt to plant heavy symbols: worms, lilies, a dead dove. But for the rest, he remains the creator of a small miracle: the only man besides John Updike who can write about salvation and damnation in a world rapidly becoming trivialized by loneliness and loss of ardor, a world with an end but no amen...
...Demands that Ford restrict his public movements. Almost no one was insisting that Ford stay rooted to his desk or expose himself only to television cameras. But members of Congress, experts on violence and editorial writers almost universally urged him to cool his ardor for personal contact with the masses, at least until the frenzy, like the abated flurry of skyjackings, passes. "Mr. Ford is in effect baring his chest, sticking out his chin and daring every kook in the country to take another shot at him," Columnist Joseph Kraft protested. Even Betty Ford has told friends she hopes...