Word: fervent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winifred Homeward the Talking Woman" in Gideon Planish. "She was an automatic, self-starting talker. Any throng of more than two persons constituted a lecture audience for her, and at sight of them she mounted an imaginary platform, pushed aside an imaginary glass of ice water, and started a fervent address full of imaginary information about Conditions and Situations that lasted till the audience had sneaked out-or a little longer." Says Dorothy: "No one can live with Sinclair Lewis for ten years without being educated...
Minister of Education Torres Bodet, hoping to avoid a second controversy, gave Biddle just one fervent instruction: "For God's sake, do something constructive!" Glowed Biddle: "This is the most beautiful wall space I ever hope to have...
...Mainichi added: "There is not a soul who does not grieve with anxiety in his fervent desire to do his part to bring ease of mind to His Majesty by quickly accomplishing whatever is troubling his Emperor...
...Dropped. The court was impressed. The prosecution was disturbed -the more so, when the defense followed with a letter written to Pétain by U.S. Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy. Marshal Pétain, said the former U.S. Ambassador to Vichy France, had often "expressed to me the fervent hope that the Nazi invaders would be destroyed. . . ." Suddenly Prosecutor André Mornet declared that he would no longer press the charge that the Marshal had plotted to defeat France. Hereafter, he would emphasize Pétain's record of collaboration after the Armistice...
...minute past midnight, July 14, the most successful military staff alliance in European history-SHAEF-was formally dissolved at Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Said SHAEF's Boss Dwight David Eisenhower to his British and American officers: "It is my fervent hope and prayer that the unparalleled unity . . . will . . . point the way to a permanent and lasting peace...