Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Argentine passion for independence and horror of any foreign domination had been exploited by Perlinger's ultranationalists, who professed to regard anything but positive antagonism toward another power as a sign of weakness. If Strong Juan Perón really intends to sweeten U.S. Argentine relations, he will have to contend with this attitude...
...hands on, makes himself look like a ready-made butt for jokes. At first the G.I.s plagued the funny-looking little man unmercifully, "scrounging" (i.e., swiping) his blankets and water, knocking off his helmet to reveal the wad of toilet paper always kept there, ridiculing his passion for orderliness and his perpetual puttering, pouncing on him in howling droves when he modestly retired behind a bush to relieve himself. Then the letters from home began to arrive, mentioning the Pyle column or enclosing clippings of it. Slowly it dawned on the G.I.s that they had acquired a champion...
Clarence Mackay would not give his consent to Ellin's marrying Berlin. On New Year's Eve, 1925, Berlin admitted defeat and, after pouring his passion into All Alone, prepared to sail for Europe. Then Ellin agreed to marry him despite her art-collecting, opera-patronizing, horse-racing parent. She ran away with the most popular U.S. songwriter since Stephen Foster. Clarence Mackay disinherited her from the fortune that had once been counted in the tens of millions, did not forgive the Irving Berlins until his own marriage (his second) to Opera Singer Anna Case...
...gypsy guitar player, Sabicas started playing a half-size guitar when he was 5. He was christened Augustin Castellón after his father. But a childhood passion for lima beans earned him the nickname Sabicas, which, in the dialect of Pamplona gypsies, means "the little one who likes beans." Famed for his unusual ability to play the guitar with one hand, Sabicas soon became the favorite accompanist of flamenco singers and dancers all over Spain. Nowadays, on evenings when he is not working, easy-going Sabicas-who looks like a Spanish Tom Dewey-is usually to be found...
Hence, he concludes, "the new birth of freedom, if any, must come from within. . . . What a free press needs is an owner who recognizes . . . his responsibility to represent the unrepresented . . . a man whose passion for the general welfare overcomes his desire to impose his own ideas upon the community. . . . Such ownership would develop new methods of management. It would exploit and thereby stimulate the professional instincts of the working staff. . . . Good management would operate the newspaper as the cooperative endeavor it must...