Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite his fervent pan-Arabism, however, Gaddafi is careful to maintain Libya's assertive independence. Though he has bought more than 100 tanks from Russia, he has refused a Soviet request to establish a naval base at Tobruk that would serve Russia's Mediterranean fleet. British advisers still instruct Libya's small navy, and a dozen Libyan pilots are being trained in France to fly the 110 Mirage jet fighters that Gaddafi bought from Paris. The French may be asked to run the former U.S. air force base near Tripoli...
...thousands who came to Washington took part in an unusual Fourth of July celebration, but across the nation more traditional observances contributed to one of the most fervent Independence Day celebrations in years. At exactly 11 a.m., whistles, bells and church carillons sounded in unison in towns and cities. In Philadelphia, the Declaration was read at Independence Hall, where it was first adopted...
...literal terms and a life lived by rough-hewn moral precepts. Last week the 13,500 "messengers" who gathered in Denver for the SBC's 125th anniversary meeting* seemed to be running true to type. They filled the air with gospel singing and crowded onstage to deliver fervent "testimonies" before a background painted in Sunday-school pastels...
Consider the University of Alabama, which has long been a bastion of idolized athletes and lionized coaches, pretty coeds, fervent fraternity men and racism. Today, Alabama is aroused−and politicized. An indication of the new mood came on May 6, when a candlelight service was held for the students slain at Kent State. Afterward, there was a march on the mansion of President F. David Mathews, where students demanded a number of parochial changes (self-regulation on hours for women, better food and such). Nothing big by up-North standards, but neither the service nor the march would have...
...little wetness in the form of three mornings' blessed dew descended in answer to fervent prayers and several moonlit ceremonies of great duration. The more hopefully-disposed members of the Tribe perked up, but their wise men, Alyosha and the others, and their horticulturists, remained wary. If the wind began too soon now, they said, a worse catastrophe yet would befall them and squaws awoke in the night at the slightest rustling of mice or whatever it was that made the sound like wind outside their teepees...