Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pretext Removed. Even the quid pro quo explanation did not satisfy the fedayeen. Understandably. At the same time that their major Arab enemy was tendering an olive branch, one of their most fervent supporters was getting tough. Syria last week curtailed many fedayeen activities within its borders, including some guerrilla training-camp operations; it also closed down a propaganda radio station and confiscated an issue of an official newspaper published by the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...their families have been seeking help from every direction. Besides continuing to confer with their original attorney, Daniel Schultz of Washington, D.C., they have also been in touch with two others: Thomas Clifford, the U.S. public defender in Connecticut, and Ellis Rubin, a flamboyant Miami lawyer known for his fervent espousal of Cuban-refugee causes as well as his many losing races for local public office...
...abduction made little sense, Kim's subsequent release was even more puzzling. He says that he owes his survival to two things: his fervent praying and the furor his kidnaping raised in the Japanese and American press. Kim plans to accept a fellowship at Harvard this fall, but he may not be allowed to leave Seoul again. He is currently confined to his house...
...Bundy returned ashen from a trip to Vietnam: While he was there, an NLF platoon had attacked the US troops at Pleiku. For Bundy's anemic mind, which had made all calculations in black and white, the sight of blood was unnerving. He returned to the President with a fervent recommendation: Bomb. Bomb. Bomb...
...became such a fervent evangelist that the Inquisition imprisoned and examined him more than once about his life, teaching and theology. Perturbed, he left for Paris, where he spent seven years at the university, became "Master Ignatius," and gathered around him the first of his permanent companions, among them a young Spanish nobleman named Francis Xavier...