Word: fervently
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...Russians and the Czechs were gone, and Patrice Lumumba's Red-lining advisers had been sent packing, but now a new foreign force was at work in the confused Congo. It was that of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, whose fervent hope is to rally an entire continent behind his Pan-African banner...
This is part of the basis for Black's most fervent wish: that "development diplomacy be given a separate and distinct status" in the strategy of the West. If it is not, he warns, economic aid will continue to be used as it has been in the past: "as a reward for a military alliance or a diplomatic concession, or as a last-ditch attempt to retrieve a diplomatic miscalculation... Economic aid, after all, does not just subsidize people; it influences events...
...answer to a Philadelphia bureaucrat's demand for deletion of a line in The Best Man slurring the city's drinking water, Playwright Gore Vidal said, "I'm a fervent foe of water pollution whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water," left the script intact. Just as bold on his own Hudson, where he is currently running for Congress in a Republican-dominated, midstate New York district. Democrat Vidal recently boasted, "I say 80% of what I think-a hell of a lot more than any politician I know." Not that...
...said French Economist Jacques Rueff last week as he presented the report of a 16-man government committee appointed last year to find out what is hampering France's efforts to expand. The committee, guided by Rueff, architect of the successful franc devaluation in 1958 and a fervent apostle of free enterprise, and Louis Armand, postwar boss of the French nationalized railroads and later first president of Euratom, found that plenty ails French business-much of it a legacy of protectionism and special privilege from the past. The Rueff-Armand report called for a sweeping liberalization and restoration...
When the first Japanese-language version of the U.S. jazz magazine Down Beat hit the stands in Tokyo this summer, an 18-year-old university student wrote the publishers his fervent thanks: "To me your magazine is as a mountain guide to an amateur Alpinist." Japanese enthusiasts are finding the cool air of American jazz a mighty heady place...