Word: fervently
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CHINA has emphasized the training of insurgents from elsewhere in Asia -Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Ceylon, Japan and the Philippines. The Chinese program, which currently involves 100-150 students per year, is one of the toughest and most fervent. Most sources agree that, while the Russians provide strong ideological and theoretical training for warfare in the indefinite future, the Chinese program is pragmatically oriented toward more immediate action, and is extremely rigorous. Training takes place under deliberately primitive conditions; if guerrillas visit the cities at all, they do so in the guise of students or tourists...
...fair play-and you know me, Al, I'm a fervent exponent of fair play-I gotta admit that it looks like a good hustle, fiscally speaking. Why, on the first day alone, the two betting parlors in Forest Hills and Grand Central Station and a phone joint pulled in a nifty $62,306! But like you said, Al, where's the class? No leaning over the rail cheering them babies home, no hanging around the paddock with Charlie Highpockets and Danny the Dip. Just stand in line-hoo, boy, what lines!-and place your bets...
Even as repression has become more muted in the Soviet Union, social and economic forces are at work in the society to temper ideological fundamentalism. A fervent, unashamed patriotism is still evident, as is a certain loyalty to the ideal of Communism. Still, mass education, one of the system's most laudable achievements, has created legions of men and women who are less inclined than their unlettered peasant parents to accept without question the necessity for class warfare or some of the other brutal simplicities of Communism...
...driving coaching, the conditioning, or the Canadian 40-game schedule mentality to win consistently all season long. Harvard's hockey team is not dedicated in the sense that it narrowly pursues winning hockey with all its energy under a disciplined regime. Harvard hockey players certainly do not receive the fervent support of other major Eastern powers...
...very glib, all true to widely varying extents, all very "now" things to say. All offensive, especially in their slick matrix, but not particularly pernicious. Unfortunately, Harkness shares other insights that are far more insidious. For instance, he criticizes "a fervent Marxist-Leninist" acquaintance: "We figured that any changes that were really going to happen were going to happen in people's heads . . . . So we blew our dope and stayed in our heads . . . . " Yet, describing the transformation of his friends and himself from straight to freak, Harkness includes the stage when "your parents [see] a picture...