Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Five thousand fervent admirers turned up at the airport in Maharashtra state to greet Mrs. Gandhi en route to Bhave's ashram. Three times her cavalcade halted as she delivered her first political speeches since March. She warned that Prime Minister Morarji Desai's government could not deliver on its promise to reduce unemployment and poverty in a decade. "The Congress has a program to help the poor and the weak," she cried. "The country cannot make progress until their economic conditions improve...
...other Arab oil producers want to use oil as a means of bringing the West to its knees and destroying Israel in the process. But the Saudis want to keep their customers healthy so that they can sell them plenty of oil. Also, as strict Muslims and fervent antiCommunists, they fear that an economic crisis in the West could so weaken Saudi Arabia's supporters that their own country would be vulnerable to Communist designs. Since the Saudis cannot possibly spend all their petrodollars at home, they have to make enormous investments in Western Europe...
More than any past President, Jimmy Carter has committed the prestige of his office to a Middle East settlement. While he has raised Arab hopes-perhaps to an unrealistic level-he has also aroused distrust and anger in Israel and among many of its fervent supporters in the U.S. The significance of the issue reaches beyond domestic politics and even beyond the Middle East itself, for it illustrates the weaknesses of Carter's approach to world affairs generally: too public and too often contradictory...
...whatever firearms they wished. The crusade also has a basically humanistic ring. For all the progress in the war against cancer, medicine's advances have seemed agonizingly slow to many people, especially to this killer disease's victims and their desperate families. Finally, the Government's fervent opposition to Laetrile, barring it even to the terminally ill, seems not only cruel but fundamentally contradictory. The nimblest Washington lawyers find it difficult to rationalize a ban on a substance that, in reasonable quantities, apparently can do no direct harm, while at the same time the Government permits...
...have said, "Enough! Enough! Enough!' " Singer Anita Bryant told cheering supporters and newsmen in Miami Beach. "Tonight, the laws of God and the cultural values of men have been vindicated." By a smashing 2-t01 majority, the voters of Dade County had just endorsed Bryant's fervent crusade for the repeal of an ordinance outlawing discrimination against homosexuals in housing, unemployment and public accommodations. To celebrate their victory in last week's referendum, Bryant and Husband Bob Green smooched for newsmen. Said he: "This is what heterosexuals do, fellows...