Word: fervently
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...abduction made little sense, Kim's subsequent release was even more puzzling. He says that he owes his survival to two things: his fervent praying and the furor his kidnaping raised in the Japanese and American press. Kim plans to accept a fellowship at Harvard this fall, but he may not be allowed to leave Seoul again. He is currently confined to his house...
...Bundy returned ashen from a trip to Vietnam: While he was there, an NLF platoon had attacked the US troops at Pleiku. For Bundy's anemic mind, which had made all calculations in black and white, the sight of blood was unnerving. He returned to the President with a fervent recommendation: Bomb. Bomb. Bomb...
SOME of their critics have consigned them, in holy outrage, to the lower regions of hell. Some of their defenders, with equally fervent conviction, see them as saints destined for the higher reaches of heaven. Whatever their presumed destination, they are arguably the most remarkable company of men to embark on a spiritual journey since Jesus chose the Twelve Apostles. With a certain pride, they have adopted the name their enemies once used against them in derision. They are the Jesuits...
...became such a fervent evangelist that the Inquisition imprisoned and examined him more than once about his life, teaching and theology. Perturbed, he left for Paris, where he spent seven years at the university, became "Master Ignatius," and gathered around him the first of his permanent companions, among them a young Spanish nobleman named Francis Xavier...
When first elected in 1965, he seemed to be the answer to the city's fervent prayers. He was young, dashing, committed, uncorrupted-in the Kennedy mold. He showed a flair for the dramatic gesture. During the ghetto riots of the late 1960s, he walked with head held high through the streets of Harlem, and behind the scenes negotiated adroitly with potential ghetto troublemakers. New York avoided the explosions that hit many other of the nation's big cities...