Word: vehement
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...certainly not to be taken as those of the Sisters of Mercy as a whole, nor of the administration and faculty of College Misericordia.* We especially deplore the author's accusation of the "amassing of personal power" by the President. We admire his vigorous and sometimes vehement self-dedication to the cause of justice and charity in the country of which he is chief executive. If it be true that "Mr. Kennedy has become synonymous with the U.S.," then we can be proud of the reputation that his character and personality are building for us on the world scene...
...take a ride in a Swan Boat. Crossing the road, you enter historic Boston Common, where cows once grazed and where now Irishmen, Italians, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various others debate religion. On weekends the Common resembles nothing so much as London's Hyde Park, with its vehement soapbox oratory...
Ralph was the last to go and the most vehement in his denials. He actually went to Texas to submit to questioning by Wilson. But while he kept insisting that he never received any clothing, he did admit, under hard questioning, that a salesman had come up with a chalk and tape measure and worked on a suit that Ralph was trying on. Since Ralph persisted in denying that he got any clothing, his case remained hanging until last week, when further investigation showed that he had used an Estes credit card to pay for personal telephone calls. Freeman fired...
...argument swirls around the manner in which U.S. firms should be taxed on their overseas profits. Of all the Kennedy Administration's economic measures, none has evoked such vehement and unanimous opposition from U.S. business...
Inspired by this discovery, and by the hotel library's "freedom shelf." full of even more vehement anti-Communist literature. Mrs. Robb switched the text of her speech next day before the Arizona Association of Deans of Women in the Camelback's Peace Pipe Room. There she let feminine wrath get the better of her good sense, described "those on the far right" as "fascists who don't want to pay taxes." After her talk she found herself involved in an emotion-charged argument with the family of the Camelback's vehemently anti-Communist Proprietor Jack...