Word: vehement
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Griswold has been much more vehement about the fight for academic predecessors, Charles Seymour, also a freedom than was his immediate professor of history...
Protests against the "bureaucratic" forms and reports required of the groups under the rules were even more vehement. Sanford J. Langa '51, representing the Young Republicans and the Republican Open Forum, Claimed the rules were too complicated to be practical. "It gets to the point," he said, "where an officer of a club can't go to bed without filing Form...
Conceived in Iniquity. The uproarious debate dredged deep into a treasury of the vehement, sonorous and shamelessly corny phrasing which is the tribal language of U.S. politics. Cried Georgia's sandy-haired Congressman William Wheeler: " [the bill] is conceived in iniquity and nurtured with the milk of corruption . . . [It] promises ... in the name of liberty [a] most reprehensible form of slavery . . ." "FEPC," bawled Alabama's George Mclnvale Grant, "stands for Tree Enterprise Perishes Completely...
What Is Thinking? Do computers think? Some experts say yes, some say no. Both sides are vehement; but all agree that the answer to the question depends on what you mean by thinking...
...Rajk was vehement in his protestation of guilt: "I declare in advance that whatever the sentence may be, I shall consider it just." While the sentence was being read, Rajk stood between two grey-uniformed guards, his hands clasped behind his back; spectators close to him saw that he was digging his fingernails deep into the flesh. The verdict: death on the gallows for Rajk and two fellow defendants, life imprisonment for two more, nine years for another. Soldier Palffy will be sentenced separately by "a court-martial...