Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Debt and Debtors. "As a fervent believer in the pressing need of effective international collaboration after the war, I submit that the United States owes it to the world as well as to herself to define her needs...
Bernie Baruch will not be such a miracle man. No one could be. But that is the kind of confidence, amounting to a fervent faith, that the U.S. has learned to place in Bernie Baruch, multimillionaire stock speculator, brilliant generalissimo of the World War I Industries Board, adviser to five Presidents, and a private citizen who has been a public servant for a quarter of a century...
...strange Arab lamps appeared, being brought in by neighbors. I was followed out to the carriage by this strange procession of torches to light the way. Many of these people had the faces of patriarchs, silhouetted by the strange light in the darkness. I shall never forget the fervent handclasp of one old fellow who was black as the ace of spades. He couldn't speak a word of French, but he understood everything. . . . There are a number of other families who will need help of this kind...
...Jefferson's ardent democracy (TIME, Feb. 1) to shimmer in the present as well as shine from the past. Covering the ten fateful years between 1790 and 1800-when the naked, squalling infant republic had no pacifier but a weary, aging George Washington-The Patriots shows his fervent Secretary of State and his fiery Secretary of the Treasury leaping at each other's throats in their completely opposed efforts to save the country...
Fury & Flavor. Giraud's memorandum deals with France. His explanation has the fury of a puritan, the gift of shrewd observation, the introspection of a fervent nationalist, the conservatism of the French officers' class...