Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sent an observer to a U.N. meeting on seabeds in 1973. He reported back, in essence: "You won't believe what's going on. They want to give control over seabed mining to an international monopoly." Treasury Secretary George Shultz and Under Secretary William E. Simon, both fervent believers in free-market competition, were appalled. They ordered an economic review of U.S. policy. Recalls a Treasury official: "We broke rice bowls all over the place...
...impression too; Orville (as he was then unhappily known) was hired by a local bluenose to solicit offers from prostitutes so he could turn them in to the police. He wound up sympathizing with the ladies, and detesting the minions of the law. In later years, Douglas became a fervent supporter of the Warren Court decisions limiting police powers and protecting individual privacy...
Scope of Evil. After a few weeks in Lubyanka, the seeds of doubt had been planted in the mind of the fervent young Marxist. But it was only after he was transferred from Lubyanka to another Moscow prison, Butyrki, that Solzhenitsyn began to perceive the scope of the evil that had befallen his country. In Butyrki, he met the first contingent of Russian soldiers and civilians who had been captured by the Germans during the war. These people were now being repatriated?straight into Stalin's prisons and camps. Nearly 2 million of the 5.7 million prisoners...
...showing through in lines like these, as they never do when he echoes Moravia's political sentiments in The Conformist. Last Tango in Paris is pure Bertolucci, written without a source, and it too gives us a sense of death. But in that film there was a fervent impression of life set apart from a dying culture outside. Partner gives no importance to life at all. Stefania Sandrelli and Tina Amount, the two women in the film, are never treated as people by Bertolucci. The women seem glossed over as insignificant in this film, rather than abused as in Last...
...letter to Bowen, ACORN said the plant's sulfur dioxide emissions will harm the crops of farmers near the proposed plant. "It is our fervent hope that Princeton is not solely interested in obtaining profits from its investments," the letter said...