Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meat and dairy food at the same meal, and prescribes ritual bathing for men and women at certain times. Until a generation ago, Orthodox Jewry was also distinguished by its hostility and indifference to the secular world, and its adherents lived clannishly together in urban ghettos-as the fervent Hasidic sects still...
...Democrats, who received less than fervent cooperation from Big Labor in the 1966 elections, owed last week's big-city victories in some degree to the union vote. Whatever the reasons-unprecedented wage levels, blue-collar support for the war, or resentment of Republican cutbacks in spending for the cities-labor voted with a cohesion unsurpassed since the Kennedy-Nixon, election of 1960. Key fronts...
...very fact that the U.S. was a nation only in name produced a fervent drive to create national symbols that sometimes obscured Jefferson's aspirations. The drive was fueled by waves of immigrants rushing to a virgin continent that offered fabulous opportunities for self-advancement. The gold-rush spirit animated Americanism, the country's unestablished religion. The whole public-school system was aimed at Americanization. Noah Webster's spelling book taught American English to Germans, Poles, Swedes, Italians-and declared that "Europe is grown old in folly, corruption and tyranny." Geography was American, and America was bigger...
...remember her telling me about her father, whom she never saw. He was in the Resistance during the German occupation. An informer led the Nazis to the cave where he was contacting the British on the wireless. They executed him on the spot. My friend became a fervent Papandreous supporter in the late fifties, when she learned that the informer had emerged a candidate for Parliament on the Conservative ticket. He had never been brought to trial: in the name of anti-Communism, most Nazi collaborators escaped punishment in post-war Greece. In fact, Kollias, the head of the present...
...with the Communists. Another law partner was Mme. Nhu's brother, Tran Van Khiem. It was a profitable alliance for both men since the Diem family connections gave them an inside track with judges and the police. Along the way, Dzu visited the U.S. and became such a fervent Rotary Club member that he served a stint as Rotary director for all southeast Asia. He always wears his Rotary Club...