Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...south of Albany. His parents, Ann and Oliver Clay North, moved to Philmont shortly after World War II to help in the family wool-combing mill. North's father had won a Silver Star as an Army colonel in World War II, and he imbued his son with a fervent sense of patriotism. Family, God and country were the watchwords in the modest, yellow frame house on Maple Avenue...
...responded to these challenges, however, with a fervent defense of Harvard as the nation's foremost center of ethical learning. In addition to the University-wide ethics program instituted last fall, ethical considerations at Harvard were enhanced by the Business School's receiving a $30 million endowment--including a $20 million donation from outgoing Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman John S.R. Shad--to fund a comphrehensive ethics program...
Though the Salesians deny it, critics say Dom Miguel meddled in tribal politics to advance pro-mission Indians, threatened excommunication for those who disobeyed and even controlled access to the military planes that until lately provided the only transportation in and out of the area. A fervent anti-Communist and admirer of the military, Dom Miguel belongs to the minority of Brazil's bishops who oppose left-wing liberation theology, which follows Marxist-style analysis of social oppression...
Although the Nigerian leaders' fervent anti-communism hardly made credible a close alliance between Nigeria and the Soviet Union, the possibility of a rapprochement between the two nations was sufficient to cause one State Department official to threaten: "the United States government will do everything in its power to block" private citizens from organizing a relief effort...
...necessity pulling me. Like, 'Hey, it's time to find out if you got something else to contribute here on this planet.' " Men Without Women, his first Little Steven album, released in 1982, was a New York song cycle about hard life on the city streets. The songs were fervent, and the Disciples of Soul blasted behind Van Zandt like a garage band concertizing on top of a pizza oven. Voice of America, released in 1984, was a startling change-up, an album full of impassioned and informed political songs. Neither record sold well, though. It took Sun City...