Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...streetcar conductor in Lewiston, Longley is the model of the self-made man, the kind of person who jogs a mile every morning, needs only three hours of sleep a night, and avows that Ayn Rand is his favorite author. A fervent believer in the virtues of hard work, Longley as a youth labored in a textile mill to support his widowed mother and five sisters and brothers. After graduating from Bowdoin College, he went on to build one of the biggest insurance agencies in the state...
...repeatedly, along with Liddy's conviction that the U.S. is smothering and softening in permissive flab. He praises the "tough, disciplined, confident esprit of the German soldier" at the start of World War II and urges a reawakening of "duty, loyalty, patriotism." His conclusion is no less fervent: the fatherland "asks only that we do our duty as her [sic] son or daughter, as we understand that duty...
...North" charge against Thomson for prowling through business tax records that involved his political opponents-a search that has since been declared illegal by the state's supreme court. Governor Thomson's opponent will be Democrat Richard Leonard, 55, a former state senator from Nashua and a fervent antitax man himself...
When Richard Nixon turned over the reins of Government to Gerald Ford last week, the U.S. business community -long filled with fervent Nixon supporters-burst into a prolonged round of applause. It was a reaction of relief rather than celebration. A long-threatening cloud of uncertainty had been suddenly and dramatically blown away. Executives were infused with hope that public faith in White House leadership, and thus Government management of a sorely troubled economy, now stood at least a chance of being rekindled. "This is the best thing that could happen at the present time," says George Strichman, chairman...
...figure predicted by California G.O.P. Representative John H. Rousselot. The Washington Post surveyed the House and reported that only 14 Republicans were willing to say that they opposed impeachment of Nixon, while 116 said that they were undecided. Moreover, Representative Joe D. Waggonner Jr. of Louisiana, a fervent Nixon backer, has told leaders that fewer than 30 Southerners (out of 121) plan to vote against impeachment...