Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most important Men Around the President are Harold Smith and Wayne Coy. The two men, little known to the U.S. because newsmen respect their "passion for anonymity," serve the President directly as general managers...
...France Ilka took lessons in declamation, and used to hope that her actor-manager "would attack me with passion and tenderness." Sometimes his Siamese cat did, "but it was more in the spirit of criticism than desire...
...Britain the cry goes up: 'Attack! Attack in support of Russia!' For the passion to set up a western fighting front in aid of the Russians is deep in the hearts of all our people. . . . Russia may settle the war for us in 1942. By holding the Germans in check, possibly even by defeating them, the Russians may be the means of bringing the whole Axis structure down. This is a chance, an opportunity to bring the war to an end, here and now. . . . Strike out to help Russia! Strike out violently! Strike even recklessly...
...falls, and his comebacks, were due less to lumber than to his passion for boats. By the time he crashed hardest (in 1931) he was known in New Orleans for designing speedboats that answered a rum runner's prayer-and for designing other speedboats that the Feds used to chase them...
...years off & on Author Paul lived on the rue de la Huchette and watched with interest and partisan passion the political schism that split the side street, like the rest of France, into two great hostile camps. But Author Paul's political concern lacks the gusto of his human ribaldry. There is a suggestion that the citizenry of the rue de la Huchette are somehow symbolic of democracy everywhere and that, if they had run things, the Nazis would never have got to Paris. But in view of all that goes before, their pathos...