Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Gallup put together his polls, added a fervent "Amen." He wrote that two-thirds of all full-time employed Americans would be willing to have 10% deducted each payday to buy defense bonds or stamps; that six months before Pearl Harbor a substantial majority was willing to pay two weeks' salary to the Government in addition to all taxes; that 64% of all U.S. workers were willing to accept the Government's right to dictate to them the kind of work, number of hours worked and amount...
...warned, but the tide of defeat had turned and was now a thunderous southward surge of victory. The Emperor had even deigned to show himself, astride his white horse, to receive the banzais of his subjects. In the parks of Tokyo, the people thrilled to brass bands blaring the fervent strains of Kimigayo...
...doing, to destroy himself. The opera had so little drama in it, such paucity of stage movement, that New York Herald Tribune Critic Virgil Thomson labeled it "a secular cantata." The music seesawed in a narrow range between lyrical sweetness and sonorous majesty, soaring but once to fervent heights. Yet the opera could not be dismissed as a flop: it was fashioned with expertness, flavored with individuality, imbued with an inner spark...
Militarily the loss of Hong Kong means little. Its strategic value dwindled three years ago, when Japan blockaded the mainland side of the settlement. British strategists last week concentrated on Singapore, 1,454 miles to the south, kissed off Hong Kong with fervent compliments to the heroic defenders. Continued defense of the island had one great boon: a diversion of Japanese strength, however small...
Seasoned by many emergencies, the news staffs of the great networks were in top form by late afternoon. NBC scooped them all on Honolulu, bringing in at 4:06 an observer standing on the roof of the Honolulu Advertiser. His fervent assurance: "It is a real war; it is no joke." At 4:46 he gave the full story of what had happened at Hickam Field, Honolulu, Pearl Harbor...