Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near the end of the novel a Jewish terrorist pointlessly murders the most powerful and fervent of the older Zionists-a man who had sworn that Jews would never kill Britons. Arabesque, like the Middle East adventure stories that Eric Ambler spins, is no great shakes as a work of art, but it manages, along with romance, a dispassionate little picture of the way the tide was running toward the recent desperate events in Palestine...
...Communism had fervent working allies: the left wing of Italian Socialism, under Pietro Nenni, had joined the Reds in a formidable Popular Front...
...could tell what the watches verified: that the bay colt was really covering ground. Coaltown worked five furlongs in the fastest training time-:58 2/5-ever run at Keeneland. Warren Wright's Calumet Farm, which seems to have a monopoly on racing's fastest horses (Armed, Bewitch, Citation, Fervent and Faultless), had developed another...
...contradictory career. The appraisal still seemed to fit the postwar cut of Niemöller's jib. Wrote Dr. Earth: "Do not forget that Niemöller has always been, and remains today, a good-a too good-German. ... He has never ceased to be a fervent German nationalist...
Great Mystic Purpose. Many readers are likely to resent Author St. John's fervent acceptance of New Yugoslavia. They will also resent his stunning platitudes (e.g., "In European countries where there is wild inflation the value of the native currency is constantly dropping") and his soap-opera similes ("When the sun came up, the Vardar Valley looked like a young woman in a transparent white negligee standing in the morning light rubbing the sleep out of her eyes"). But criticism should not perturb bearded Bob St. John, whose faith in Tito is matched by faith in his own powers...