Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which, all last week, came the U.S.'s swiftest and most dramatic news of the invasion. It was one of the small, windowless, ill-ventilated cubbyholes deep in the basement recesses of the massive Ministry of Information. There the four big U.S. networks forgot their rivalries in a common passion to get out the biggest news of World War II. It was U.S. radio's biggest moment, and radio...
...still indulges his passion for gambling. X-House has the finest poker table in London, and at it Tooey works off any brashness or overoptimism that might be yeasting within him. He bets with a heavy hand, bluffs outrageously...
...brilliant statesman. "With the leftist ideas of his right-hand partner the Count would mildly bring out the rightist ideas of his left-hand partner, and with the rightist ideas of his left-hand partner, he would moderately develop the leftist ideas of his right-hand partner." His chief passion was planting cork trees. But for five years the Count had practised "mutual seduction" with beautiful Solange de Cleda. A horse-lover, he "was always tempted to tap Solange on the buttocks and give her a piece of sugar." Solange liked to fall on her knees in a crowded room...
Love of country, admirable as a natural passion, was distorted into a fierce nationalism by William Shakespeare ("this happy breed of men, this little world") and a host of Romantics- including William Blake, who selfishly hoped to "build Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land...
Allied cause can shake. A still more penetrating suggestion: if you want to under stand an Irishman, or the Irish, examine his passion, not his reason...