Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began wooing Kong Le's men, mounting quick, vicious infantry actions against his positions on the Plain of Jars in hopes of grabbing territory. When a Pathet Lao gunman shot down Kong Le's top deputy, the idealistic neutralist was well on his way to becoming a fervent antiCommunist. The Reds pulled out of the coalition government when a left-leaning minister was assassinated by a neutralist soldier...
...notion behind the myth is that although Goldwater would almost certainly lose to Lyndon Johnson, he would remain the party's national leader, and his fervent followers, who believe their brand of Republicanism is the only kind, would take over the G.O.P. machinery for years to come...
Leader of the Revolutionary Committee was Rightist General Kouprasith Abhay, 38, a fervent anti-Communist and pillar of the local Rotary Club who won 1960's Battle of Vientiane; he thus blocked the neutralists and pro-Communist Pathet Lao, only to have his victory stalemated by the 1962 Geneva agreement that established Laos's neutralist regime. The coup leaders were a pair of strange birds, even for the wild aviary of Southeast Asia: Kouprasith is a nervous strongman with a pet baby elephant, an incipient ulcer and a reliance on sedatives; Siho plays the dandy, wears three gold...
...ailed the Times's coverage of its own home town. The mere fact that so many hands could be mustered so fast for any single story suggests to Rosenthal that a lot of Times reporters must have been sitting around the news room. It is Rosenthal's fervent conviction that the newsroom is the last place a reporter should be. News doesn't break there. In the seven months that Abe Rosenthal has been the Times's metropolitan editor, this conviction-and Timesmen's leg muscles-has gotten plenty of exercise...
...party democracy is often hard to tell from no-party dictatorship in Africa, Somalia is an exuberant exception. Election day brought 1,000,000 Somalis to the polls to choose among 21 political parties, including one fringe group running on the single fervent conviction that the country should import only Fiats, to ease the shortage of auto parts. If the proliferation of parties resembled the nightmare of French politics before De Gaulle, the Somalis' fist-swinging, rock-throwing, vote-early-and-often electioneering style seemed more like vintage Chicago. With African differences...