Word: vehement
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...vote plurality in Essex and Union Counties, Kean won by 24,000 votes over President Eisenhower's onetime appointments secretary, Bernard Shanley, who had strong G.O.P. machine endorsement. Trailing as a poor third: sometime (on and off between 1951 and 1958) Senate Internal Security Subcommittee Counsel Robert Morris, vehement anti-Communist and G.O.P. right-winger...
Five years ago Nathan M. Pusey because President of Harvard University, and for five years his philosophy of education has been the object of both praise and doubt. At the present time the doubt has centered in a vehement and disorganized discussion on the proper use of Memorial Church, a discussion which has clouded the larger issues more than it has clarified them...
Says Brown, who already has more than $1,000.000 pledged toward a new art museum building: "The best way to describe the interest Los Angeles has in art is to say it's vehement. More fine private collections are being made, more important galleries are being operated, and more art is being shown publicly than in any other city but New York. This is clearly the No. 2 art center in the U.S. today,, and in 20 years or so, Los Angeles may even overtake New York...
...take vehement objection to your implicit characterization of the Paulist fathers [Feb. 3] as an "American Missionary Group" employing "American techniques." Many prominent Catholics find their tactlessness and indiscretions revolting. Their real aim is to make every free nation a vassal state of the Vatican...
...Malaya the Sultan of Pahang was ruled out of the running to be the new nation's first Paramount Ruler because of his marital didoes (TIME. Aug. 12), and across the Strait of Malacca, when Indonesia's President Sukarno took a third wife, he touched off vehement, widely publicized feminist demonstrations. In the more cosmopolitan Moslem cities such as Rabat, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul and Karachi, unveiled women have long since ceased to be a novelty. In Turkey the veil was lifted some 30 years ago under the late great Dictator Kemal Ataturk, and in Iran under the late...