Word: fervently
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Saved by Nuns. Anunlikely agent of catastrophe, Father Daniel has been a fervent Zionist since his childhood in Poland. During the German occupation he posed as a Silesian Christian, and, working as a police interpreter, he managed to save half the Jewish community of the town of Mir by warning them of an imminent Nazi roundup. Rufeisen spent the next 15 months hiding in a convent. Baptized by the nuns, Father Daniel joined the Carmelite Order in Poland, gave up his Polish passport to come to Israel...
...traffic cop who sent him a summons. More recently, he was involved in an unsavory case of favoritism in contract awards for military housing. He has since been exonerated. If he is to retrieve his reputation and once again climb back up to influence, it will be against the fervent wishes of many of his own colleagues...
Conservative v. Liberal. Judd, 64, is one of the Republican Party's most respected House voices on foreign affairs. An M.D. who spent ten years in China as a medical missionary, he is a fervent anti-Communist and an enthusiastic internationalist. Says Judd of his views on domestic issues: "I'm a conservative. I go to the Federal Government last, not first, unless there's no other way to get the job done. I am afraid of concentration of power in Washington or anywhere else, because this is the way people lose their freedom." He adds...
...Pentecostal minister preaches a simple theology: a fundamentalist belief in the Bible and in salvation through repentance and prayer; a fervent, emotional attachment to baptism of the Holy Spirit -the belief that the worshiper, like the apostles, can be instilled with a holiness that will meet the test of the Second Coming. Most of all, notes Henry P. Van Dusen, president of New York's Union Theological Seminary, the Pentecostals maintain "a life-commanding, life-transforming, seven-days-a-week devotion, however limited in outlook, to a living Lord of all life...
...with his audience. He not only included Friede auf Erden by Composer Arnold Schoenberg, who is ideologically unacceptable in Russian musical circles, but he also scheduled a great deal of religious music, which is virtually never heard in Russian concert halls. Shaw, 46, was surprised by the Russians' fervent response. Said he: "You couldn't ask for anything more." Soviet Deputy Cultural Minister Alexander Kuznetsov offered a hopeful explanation. "We Russians," said he, "also understand things of the spirit...