Word: fervently
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...frequented the sacraments in larger numbers than ever. On feast days, families of the faithful have come in from the countryside to Mass, sometimes walking 15 or more miles in thin cotton shoes over narrow paths and rough roads. An unexpected number of lax Catholics .. . have returned to more fervent and integral service...
...Arensbergs bought fine works by almost every pioneer modern artist, but they cherish especially fervent views of Duchamp and Brancusi...
British opinion was shifting in favor of rearmament. Said the Archbishop of York in a diocesan letter supporting rearmament: "There is no alternative unless we are prepared to be the slaves of Russian Communism. This is a time for plain speech, for there are still many who believe that fervent desire for peace is sufficient to secure it without any sacrifices...
...Indian wit once described Jawaharlal Nehru as "a constantly expanding bundle of contradictions." Nehru is an aristocratic Brahman who turned Socialist, a fervent Asian nationalist who went to Cambridge and drank thirstily if not deeply of Western culture, a devout disciple of Gandhi's nonviolence who more than once has been known to beat rowdy followers over the head with a chair. In London last week, Nehru exhibited another specimen from his bulging bundle of contradictions. In one breath, he urged the U.S. to show "sympathy and understanding" toward Communist China, at all cost avoid further conflict in Asia...
...century later, thousands of men & women still answer Mrs Fox's query with a fervent yes. For the Fox sisters, though they later went on tour to confess that their apparent psychic powers were an "absolute fraud," really started something. By 1854 (while the Fox sisters were still "psychic"), 15,000 earnest believers had signed a petition demanding that Congress appoint a committee of scientists to investigate such phenomena.* And belief in spiritualism continues to flourish. This month, Britain's House of Commons gravely read for the second time a bill to protect "genuine" mediums by repealing...