Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fervent love and intense pain...
...designated capital crimes. Last month, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected an effort by Philadelphia Prosecutor Arlen Specter and his assistant Richard Sprague to show that the state's death penalty has not in fact been imposed arbitrarily. Sprague, who is one of the nation's most fervent supporters of capital punishment and is prosecuting the Yablonski mine union murder cases (TIME, July 17), based his argument on a study he has made of Pennsylvania's condemned men. Poor, black or uneducated defendants, he said, are actually slightly less likely than others to receive death sentences. The court...
...effecting mer the cury and sulphide of mercury. In 1890 an Italian professor got results from a concoction of chocolate, water, sugar, casein, milk serum and salt. Even the Vatican's doubts did not daunt the Neapolitans. After San Gennaro lost his place on the church calendar, a fervent follower scrawled on the saint's altar in the cathedral: "San Gennaro, don't give a damn...
...here. The passion that animated the early founders of Zion has cooled. The new passionate people are the Arab fedayeen, and in some small dark recess of the national psyche, the Israelis are jealous. In particular, the not-so-young married women who are the book's most fervent admirers have found in Hannah a vicarious release from the unromantic demands of industrialized nation building...
...Mauriac. "I have never slept so badly," says Jacqueline Forgereau, a chain smoker who took the pledge. "I manage to swallow half a gallon of mineral water daily, but I can't stop eating. I don't know how much longer I can keep this up." The most fervent denunciations of all have come from some of the town's six tobacconists, whose sales have dropped as much...