Word: vehement
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...months, my ever-faithful roommates have noticed something a bit fanatic in my feelings towards the military. “You are a psychotic Republican freak, announced Natasha P. Rosow ’02 (an überhip L.A. bohemian liberal feminist destined for Hollywood glory) after my particularly vehement defense of Mr. Rumsfeld. Squash star-cum-photographer Carlin E. Wing ’02, on the other hand, sends forth e-mails rife with anti-establishment sentiment, hoping beyond hope that she can convert me to a sense of normalcy. At my moments of severe military fervor, however...
...what was the purpose of the counter-protest? Why a vehement opposition if they recognized the validity of the Palestinian claims human rights and self-determination? They were out there because they opposed the “one sidedness” of the demonstration and they didn’t want Israel being demonized...
Harvard’s Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04 and incoming Harvard freshman Julie Chu ’06 were among those U.S. players offering vehement denials that the incident ever took place...
...million ethnic Hungarians living in neighboring countries with a new "status law" that came into force last month. The legislation extends generous benefits to people of Hungarian descent in the region - ranging from stipends for Hungarian-language schooling to subsidized travel and facilitated work permits - but has stirred up vehement opposition in nearby countries...
...professors. “It’s a smelly mess,” Senator Joseph McCarthy said of Harvard in 1953. McCarthy accused Pusey of being a rabid anti-anti-communist leading a University that was a sanctuary for communists. In the face of these vehement attacks, Pusey staunchly defended universities as a place of academic freedom and diversity. Though he opposed allowing communists on the Faculty, arguing that they lacked the necessary independence of thought and judgment, he also believed that such decisions must be left to universities themselves, and not subjected to outside pressure...