Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with three and a half years AAF service in the Pacific, suddenly tossed away his script, banged on a table and shouted: "Are you listening, Crump,* damn you! This is an opportunity I've been waiting for for a long time. . . ." Thereupon, hour after hour, while phones jangled, fervent, incoherent Cecil Fike aired almost every complaint known to veterans. Next morning, dishevelled, tired and fired, he explained: "I just...
From Czechoslovakia: Jan Garrigue Masaryk, Foreign Minister for the new Communist-Socialist Czech Government and chief of its United Nations delegation, stands between two ideological worlds. Son of the father of Czech independence after World War I, Jan Masaryk became the fervent pleader of his country's lost cause after Munich. No Communist, Masaryk is now busy at his job of explaining to the Western world Czechoslovakia's new role as an ally of Russia. Says Masaryk: "There is no iron curtain in Czechoslovakia. . . . The door to the West is wide open. . . . We go along with Russia...
Readers will find this collection a good sampling of the word magic and feverish, often fervent passions that have won Dylan Thomas his present place in English poetry. Ballads, sonnets, unorthodox "visions" and "prayers"-all are dedicated to sensual man and a triumphant joie de vivre...
...this surcharged situation a fervent voice suddenly spoke out. For most of his life Elias Hicks, a Long Island farmer, had been a respected though not particularly distinguished Quaker minister.* But in 1815, at the age of 67, he was moved to preach against the evangelistic doctrines which he felt were threatening Quaker mysticism.† At the Yearly Meeting of 1827, differences were too deep even for Friendly reconciliation: country Quakers withdrew to form a separate meeting. Though they never formally accepted the teachings or leadership of Elias Hicks, the seceders were known as "Hicksites" for want of a better...
Shuffling briskly between fervent opinion and intimate revelation, As He Saw It is far more interesting in the second role. Elliott must be one of a tiny handful who have seen Winston Churchill "stalking about the room, clad only in a cigar." Bits like this and F.D.R.'s comments on his contemporaries, as remembered by Elliott, will be noted by more serious biographers. Sample F.D.R. comments...