Word: fervent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...football squad. Besides Armed, its stars include a plump little filly named Bewitch, whose high hindquarters make her look as if she were walking downhill. Winner of eight straight races, she is still unbeaten, easily the No. 1 two-year-old of the year. Also on the first team: Fervent, who broke the track record in the $60,000 American Derby; Faultless, the winner of last spring's Preakness...
...over the world next week, the ram's horns of Rosh Hashanah (beginning of the New Year) will call faithful Jews to the Ten Days of Penitence that end with Yom Kippur. No prayers will be more fervent than those from the 80-odd ex-Catholics of San Nicandro, Italy...
...House, Republican bosses wanted a $6 billion bite and no buts. As their proposal hit the floor with a take-it-or-leave-it rule barring amendments. Appropriations Committee Chairman John Tabor whipped the Republicans into line. He got fervent support from Missouri's Dewey Short, who opened an attack on New Deal spending by disdaining the microphone and bawling: "I never did like to speak through a tin horn. It's like kissing a beautiful girl through a screen door...
...week, Sweden's King Gustav, 88, was guilty of a slip of the tongue which caused the Soviet Minister's heart to miss a beat. Said the King (of Sweden's membership in the United Nations): "We have recently joined the United States. It is the fervent wish of our entire people that this new union will successfully complete its mission to affirm international collaboration and to assure peace...
...Statler, and in the course of its deliberations neatly side stopped the most ubiquitous and difficult of all pedagogical problems--money. The nettlesome issue of Federal subsidies for higher education stood high on the agenda, and one of the keynote speeches featured Dr. Carmichael of Tufts in a fervent plea for Federal aid. Then, quietly, the convention sent the resolution back to committee with a recommendation that the membership be polled a second time on a question to which it had already responded "Aye" by a preponderant majority...