Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old son - had his polio shot . . . and seven days later, he got sick," Mrs. R. M. Adams of Puenten, Calif, wrote to us. She added an hour-by-hour report on her son's symptoms and made a fervent appeal for advice about polio vaccine. "I'm writing to you because TIME is the only place we were able to get any good information." Other worried mothers, we have heard, were told by family physicians: "You can get as much information as I have by reading TIME's MEDICINE section." Last week at the American Medical...
...greeted all constituents as "Brother," or "Honey," glibly filled in the proper names as his local frontmen supplied them: "Good to shake your hand, Mrs. Lewis. You know my daughter married a Lewis, honey. Say hello to Mr. Lewis for me." Whenever possible, he applied the personal touch: a fervent handclasp, an embrace, a clutched arm, a kiss...
...less than four minutes. "Is it unanimous then?" he asked. "It's unanimous!" snapped Congressman William Dawson, boss of the South Side (Negro) wards. "They gave me a fast deal," said Kennelly later. The machine's choice for mayor: beefy County Chairman Richard Daley, 52, a fervent party regular, who explains, "No man can walk alone...
Mathieu's own name for the school is "lyrical abstractionism." In London it is "action painting," in Manhattan "abstract expressionism." By whatever name, the school stands for huge canvases covered with fervent swirls and splashes of paint...
...Efficient government"--desire of all good citizens, fervent promise of all politicians-suggests the factory where the efficiency of men and machines is tested by their qualifications for the goal of maximum output. Most functions of present-day government can be subjected to this test, but some of the oldest and most important functions of government cannot be. Governments not only produce goods, e.g., Navy yard warships, and services, e.g., weather forecasts; they also produce a reflection of the national will, the national sense of justice and policy...