Word: fervently
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...remained curiously indifferent to that nation's life struggles in two world wars and a depression. To the outside world, it seemed that the only external event that seared Picasso's imagination and conscience was the Spanish Civil War, the fratricidal bloodletting that inspired Guernica. A fervent supporter of the Republic against Franco, he contributed many paintings to raise funds for the war's victims...
...contrast, Mark Dolson's heart is on fire for the Lord, and a fresh blaze it is. He has a trigger-lipped contempt for clerical authority. He believes that women and gays should be admitted to the priesthood. He loathes "consumerism" and, worst of all, has a fervent conviction that the words of Jesus, once heard and acted upon, will render the church redundant...
Gaddafi's threat has given rise to fears that Libyan death squads may be operating overseas. Four anti-Gaddafi Libyans were murdered in Rome and London earlier this year; suspects arrested for the crimes are all fervent supporters of the colonel. At week's end a fifth Libyan dissident was assassinated when a gunman got his victim to accompany him to a Rome cafe, then pumped two bullets into his head. Italian police arrested a Libyan citizen who reportedly confessed to the murder, saying that the dissident was an "enemy of the Libyan people and of Gaddafi, which...
...church, where, for 100 years, it has drawn its sap, which now permits it to give its fruits to the church and to become itself missionary to others. Your church will have to deepen its local African dimension, without ever forgetting its universal dimension. I know your fervent attachment to the Pope. I say also to you: Through him, remain united to the whole church." But wherever he went John Paul also emphasized the limits of Africanization, pointing out that Africa's Catholics are part of the universal church. He praised bishops for their loyalty to the papacy. Though...
Muskie is a mixture of Polish combativeness and Yankee taciturnity. The second of six children of an immigrant Polish tailor who settled in Maine, he became a fervent debater in high school in the mill town of Rumford. He went on to graduate from Maine's Bates College and Cornell University Law School. Elected to the Maine house of representatives in 1946, he ran for Governor in 1954 and scored a startling upset in a traditionally Republican state. He got along so well with his Republican-controlled legislature that he was even invited to join the G.O.P., an honor...