Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happy event may reach into your hearts so that each of you may have a higher appreciation of an athlete's dignity ... We cannot wish victory to any particular team or athlete. Therefore, may the best man win. This does not prevent us, however, from expressing our fervent wish that these days' contests will benefit you all and afford you untold advantages...
...They'd Crow!" Like Adlai Stevenson, his opposite number in Los Angeles, Goldwater found that he could draw a fervent crowd wherever he went. But unlike Adlai, Goldwater coldly counted delegates before listening to the hot promises of his friends. If he could find as many as 300, he told one group, he would push ahead for the nomination, if only to make conservatism's pull felt. "If I went in and got less than 100 votes," he said, "how they'd crow! I know what the Lipp-manns and the Alsops and the Childses would...
...fine cover story of July 11 on the Kennedys! I saw the Kennedy family, So here's my fervent prayer: Please let them keep their money, But, Lord, remove their hair...
...Protestant attack on Smith after his nomination, opposition to him as a Catholic and opposition to him as a wet were inextricably entangled. People who were intensely hostile toward Catholicism were usually fervent drys. Since American traditions tended to inhibit direct assaults on religion, hostility to Smith's Catholicism was often expressed in denunciations of him as a servant of the Demon...
Equally out of date is the fervent wirepulling that once plagued Ivy admissions men. Princeton's Director Edwards turned down one father's offer of a $500,000 geology building, along with his son. Not even a proffered letter from the President of the U.S. on behalf of one applicant moved M.I.T.'s Director of Admissions B. Alden Thresher ("The thicker the folder, the thicker the student"). He insisted on a letter from a math teacher instead. And the point has sunk in. Says Amherst's Dean of Admission Eugene S. Wilson: "I haven...