Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More Fervent Life. New life has also come to some of the ancient patriarchates. Says His Beatitude Theodosios VI of Antioch:*"Our church is health ier today than it has been for the last 1,000 years." The Antioch patriarchate, fairly well supplied with funds by Syrian and Lebanese emigrants to the U.S., is busily restoring old churches and building new ones, has an active youth movement called the St. Nicholas So ciety, and can afford to give many of its new priests graduate training...
...Fervent agreement was voiced by U.S. feminists. Said Jane Hart, wife of Michigan Senator Philip Hart and leader in the fight to get women astronauts accepted by solidly misogynistic NASA: I'm tempted to go out to the barn and tell the story to my horse and listen to him laugh." Added Clare Boothe Luce: "We must stop trying to make paper dolls of our women." Anthropologist Margaret Mead commented acidly: "The Russians treat men and women interchangeably. We treat men and women differently...
Paul VI promised to continue John's work for Christian unity: "The common aspiration to reintegrate the unity sorrowfully broken in the past will find in us an echo of fervent will and moving prayer." And he would work also for peace-"a peace which is not only an absence of warlike rivalries and armed factions, but a reflection of the order wished by the Lord, creator and redeemer, a constructive and strong will for understanding and brotherhood, a clear-cut expression of good will, a never-ceasing desire of active concord, inspired by the true well-being...
...Hamilton Gibb was aquired from Britain in 1955 with only the promise of a University Professorship and Harvard's fervent hope for the active center of Middle Eastern Studies it now has. Schlesinger (along with Frederic Merk) succeeded Fredrick Jackson Turner a generation ago as the dominant influence on American social history
...pilots have a jargon of their own. They "zap" the Viet Cong on a good day, call Saigon "the ville," express fervent approval of everything from a girl to a chopper with the word"outstandin'." Top-ranking visitors often hitch rides on their flights to get in a few personal licks at the Viet Cong. Brigadier General Joseph Stilwell Jr., son of "Vinegar Joe," frequently rides shotgun in Slavich's own chopper. Once, with Stilwell aboard, Slavich had to make an emergency landing in a Red-infested area. "I was scared to death," said Slavich...