Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outside angel shared Lowell's fervent faith in the scheme. "In a kind of desperation," Lowell finally endowed the society out of his own pocket, "although it took nearly all I had." (It took $1,500,000.) Last week the impressive return on Lowell's investment was totted up in a proud report by the society's chairman, History Professor Crane Brinton...
...Most tied into the same closed-circuit TV network while Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton in Manhattan summoned up the G.O.P.'s biggest names (Vice President Richard Nixon in Chicago, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller in Washington, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge in Pittsburgh, et al.) for fervent testimonials to Ike. Said Lodge: "Like George Washing ton, you are first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of your countrymen...
Wheaton students, predominantly Baptist (702) and Presbyterian (211), are fervent hymn singers and zealous doers of good works in nearby Chicago's hospitals and slums, but the lipsticked coeds and moccasined young men look as trim and handsome as those on any U.S. campus. The restrictions of Wheaton life seem to be no hardship; no more than five or ten students a year are asked to leave for breaking their pledge not to dance, drink, smoke, play cards or go to the movies...
...favor of tax relief, and Congress recently made it easier for the rails to discontinue service that is no longer needed. Once these preliminaries are over, it is up to the railroads-and to the auto's other rivals -to win the commuter's hand by fervent wooing. The best suitor will win, but there are plenty of commuters to go around. Like all who feel underprivileged, put upon, unwanted and besieged, the U.S. commuter has a secret desire: he wants to be loved-and to get there on time...
...wire services were the target in another phase of the attack. Last week at a meeting of Havana's Provincial Newspaper Guild, Guild President Baldomiro Rios, a fervent Castro disciple, issued a special resolution. Hereafter, proclaimed Rios, any wire-agency story that lied about Castro (meaning put him in a bad light) would, if it appeared in any Cuban paper, be followed by this rider: "This wire story is published voluntarily by this newspaper, making legitimate use of the press freedom existing in Cuba. But newspapermen and graphic workers of this work center express, using that same right, their...