Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since some of the Lawrence dialogue (expurgated, of course) has been retained, the discrepancy between the characters' appearances and their fervent avowals is very great indeed...
...while it lasts. "Who's No. 1?-We're No. 1," chanted the U.C.L.A. cheering section with pardonable delirium. Southern Cal alumni happily compared their 1962 squad to the great Trojan teams of the '40s. And up in Seattle, Husky Stadium rocked to the fervent strains of Heaven Help the Foes of Washington. "I've never seen anything like it," said a Purdue official just before the Boilermakers took the field against Washington. "These people are actually feeling sorry...
Monroe was a fervent believer in national unity. Shortly after his inauguration he set off on a national tour - a strenuous undertaking in those days - using his enormous personal popularity to help bind the nation
...bill's last real hurdle. The House passed the measure last June. But then Virginia's Harry Byrd began holding lengthy hearings and, as protectionists nocked before the committee, Administration apprehensions rose. The committee vote, when it finally came, astonished even the bill's most fervent supporters. It was a unanimous 17 to 0, and it gave almost absolute assurance that the whole Senate would soon approve the Administration's program intact...
Though he prefers keeping research and teaching under one roof, Chicago's Chancellor Beadle is impressed by the system in Britain, where medical research units work off-campus, "free of teaching chores and administration overhead." One fervent advocate of expanding the U.S. centers is Physicist Alvin M. Weinberg, onetime researcher at the University of Chicago and now director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Worried that universities are being invaded by "Big Science," which turns professors into "operators" frantically "spending money instead of thought," Weinberg suggests that new technical universities and graduate schools be clustered around the centers...