Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delight of her fervent followers, five justices of the Supreme Court of India last week ruled that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was innocent. In separate but concurring opinions, the judges upheld the legality of the 1975 election-law amendment-passed retroactively by India's rubber-stamp Parliament after opposition members either were arrested or walked out-that changed the statutes under which Mrs. Gandhi had been found guilty of corrupt campaign practices. In essence, the ruling reversed the June Allahabad high court decision that would have barred her from holding elective office for six years...
Body Stealer. There is some padding in the 13,390 entries. Is anyone likely to misplace humid or fervent or dawdle? Bernstein includes some delightful, half-remembered curios-a body stealer, for example, is a resurrectionist. But where is mooncalf? Where is poshlust? Sometimes the clue words are elusive. If one goes hunting for callipygian, he cannot look under "buttocks, rounded" or some such, but must hit "shapely buttocks" or "beautiful buttocks." ("Buttocks that are fat" yields steatopygia-which is a different matter altogether.) Bernstein's backward dictionary is a kind of combination thesaurus and crossword-puzzle dictionary...
...Bring on the Bulldogs!" shouted second-year coach Jim Byrne at the final gun. But the game had an added significance for the Kirkland eleven. The team dedicated the victory to House Superintendent Eddie Chamberlain, the squad's most loyal supporter and fervent rooter. Supt. Chamberlain is set to retire after 25 years of meritorious service to Harvard...
...dance-tunes, and their heavily accented version of the Shaker song "Simple Gifts" sounded a bit like "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", but these failings were more than compensated for by their delicacy during the so-called duo between the Bride and her Intended, and by the almost fervent, prayerful quality they brought to the quiet ending...
...Western European standards or by those of almost any moment in the American past except for the 1950s -when a somewhat superficial resurgence occurred-religious organizations are surviving and achieving much. If the mainline Catholic and Protestant churches are in holding patterns or even declining slightly, the more fervent and rigid churches have found fresh followers. New groups that derive from nonbiblical traditions are prospering...